FE is I&#39;m betting way more bandwidth than you need to your everyday desktop and small datacenter. the 1Gig uplink is important. <br /><br />The 2811 is also quite a power house so I&#39;d start elsewhere if you&#39;re &#39;feeling&#39; some sort of sluggish network speeds.<br /><br />Users sometimes get used to seeing &#39;connected at 1Gbps&#39; ; 100Mbps has some sort of reverse placebo effect:-)....anyway let us know if you need help with something specific.<br /><br />JGitau<br /><br />On Jul 29, 2010 6:13pm, Philip Musyoki &lt;pmusyoki@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br />&gt; Thanks JGitau,<br />&gt; <br />&gt; This is precisely the kind of information I was looking for. i think I will just have to settle for 16 F/E Switch with one GE port.<br />&gt; <br />&gt; I think I am just getting older but I am starting to find F/E getting slower.<br />&gt; <br />&gt; <br />&gt;