yeah that was in pc magazine, they divided em up into lo medium and hi
priced categories as well..
Bri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)
>
> On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 19:41 US/Pacific, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> > I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a
> > Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly
> > decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of
> > them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with
> > sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be
> > confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s.
>
> 1,600 Mb/s.
>
> > I believe the D-Link can do this
> > speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a
> > bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by
> > collisions.
>
> I saw a test a few months ago of several low-end switches, and they
> were all non-blocking with similar performance. Pretty much a
> commodity item at this point.
>
> KeS
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