I purchased a Netgear Gigabit 5 port switch recently. My father needed a switch, so if all failed, it would work out in the end. I hooked up everything with Cat6 wires and ran speedtest.net. I obtained the same results with a direct connection, so I was overjoyed. I went to log on WoW and wanted to obtain a 'raw' ping estimate with the new system. Unfortunately, I went from a previous 44-60 ping to a 1400-2600 ping that maintained this high peak for the duration of the test. I went back to speedtest.net and now I was receiving 4,500-5,200 down rates (previously 6800-6900) and when loading web pages, I could notice the difference. Is there something I did wrong here in setting it up? Setup is:

Cable--->Router(10/100)[Linksys]--cat5-->5 Port Switch(10/100/1000)[Netgear]--cat6-->Computer

Or Is this just not a viable solution for setting up multi-computer clients.

-Qlimax