Since they will be unable to get gigabit speeds from the internet, I was planning on keeping the internal network between the work stations and the server on gigabit and the connection to the internet on a normal 100mbps router.
Here is the layout I have designed.
DSL Modem ---> Router (100mbps Lan, 54mbps WAN) ---> Netgear gigabit switch (4 work stations connect to this switch) --------> Netgear gigabit switch (4 work stations connect to this switch) --------> Netgear gigabit switch (two work stations and the server connect to this switch)
Based on that primitive drawing i hope you can see what i am talking about. All the workstations have gigabit network adaptors except for two stations on the wirless connection. All I am looking for is gigabit speeds between the 10 main work stations and the server. Using the layout I have above, will that work or will the router keep everything set back to 100mbps?