[TriLUG] Improvements for my church's network

[Brian via TriLUG]

I'm no expert in the subject, but unless you have multiple Internet 
connections, link aggregation won't do you a bit of good.  Your switch 
should have more than enough bandwidth to saturate your internet 
connection without breaking a sweat with just a single link.

I'm also not sure how much good link aggregation would do you even if 
you did have two or more WAN links; seems like it would just move the 
bottleneck to the next hop (but maybe that hop has a wider pipe, so 
there could be a benefit).

-B

On 04/19/2017 03:20 PM, James Jones via TriLUG wrote:
> All,
>
> Recently purchased a Linksys LGS318 smart switch for the church's LAN.
> My knowledge of managed/smart switching is at beginner's level.
>
> The church wants to live stream the video of our Sunday Morning
> Worship Service. The computer that will supply the video stream to the
> internet has relatively good speed with a 1 gigabit network interface.
>
> Would it be good to use link aggregation to improve the throughput or
> reliability to the internet? If so, I would need to add another
> gigabit nic interface to the computer, wouldn't I?
>
> Any advice for achieving Link aggregation would be helpful.
>
> Is there a how to that you can recommend that will help me get started
> with this?
>