I'm not a network/hardware guy so please bear with me if I'm using the wrong vernacular in my question:
My office recently upgraded our Internet from 50/10 Mbps to 150/20 Mbps. For this upgrade, we got a new router to support the increased speed. This router is plugged into a switch which has several outlets that are connected to various computers throughout the office. The switch has a lighted panel that shows which outlet is handling a throughput of 1000M (green light) or 100M (yellow light). Some of the outlets are green and others are yellow.
Hence my question -- shouldn't the computers that are connected to the switch with a green light (1000M) be seeing a faster connection speed when conducting a speed test? Because if so, I'm not seeing it. For example, if I plug my computer directly into the router, I'm getting a speed test result of 170/23 but if I plug the same computer into the switch (and get a green light), and the switch is plugged into the router, I get a speed test result of 23/23. Why?
Any advice, suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.
For those who want to know... our switch is a 3COM baseline switch model 2824-SFP Plus.