Designing a high-speed network involves several key considerations.
Designing a high-speed network involves several key considerations.
I discovered the speed issues were linked to flow control being off. On my setup, a NAS connected at 10Gbit caused slowdowns when trying to use a 1Gbit client because data would bottleneck at the switch. Flow control prevents this by managing traffic. It might help with an unmanaged switch if you manually enable it on all ports, though I’m not certain. My fix was turning flow control on every port on the switch, and everything functioned smoothly.
Bit of an update here. So, I ended up going with the QSW-M408-2C. It's managed, and has the amount of ports that fits my needs. However, a bit of an odd bug, it seems to think it cannot access the internet (say, when checking for firmware updates, or syncing with time servers), but meanwhile all connected devices are able to access the internet just fine. Normally i'd leave well enough alone, but this bothers me and I'm snowed in, so might as well play around. My house uses the Google Mesh Wifi points (not my decision), and the switch is connected via the LAN port on the first mesh point in the chain where the WAN cable is going into. I'll have to dig around a bit more.