It seems unlikely that one machine could consume all backplane bandwidth, even on cheap unmanaged switches. Most all modern switches I've seen have "non-blocking backplane bandwidth", which means that every port can be transmitting and receiving at full bandwidth at the same time without performance degradation.
> -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:30 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: [H] Question on managed switches > > I'm looking for a durable, 24 port switch, and I'm thinking I should go > managed so that I can set some of the ports to have guaranteed amount of > bandwidth because occasionally a machine of lower importance will go nuts > and grab all the bandwidth on my current unmanaged switch (at least, that's > what appears to be > happening.) Does this makes sense, and if so, what makes/models are > good? > > T >
