Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:37:55 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 port 10/100 hubs/switches. Message-ID: <3A01C293.5787199A@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001031233401.54189A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote:
>
> :I just went out & bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port
> :10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established
> :that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I
> :current have connected to it have sucessfully negotiated 100Mbs full-duplex
> :(speed is great!). Is there any reasons why I should've considered the netgear
> :unit? I didn't see anything on the box (after a rather cursory perusal) on it
> :about managability, SNMP et cetera.
>
> Probably not. If you don't see performance or reliability problems, no.
> It's conceivable that one switch can't do 100MB full duplex to every port
> at the same time.
Actually, all these Taiwanese companies, Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, etc., make
products that are amazingly similar. Usually the cheapest one is the newest
design, and performance tends to favor the newest design as well.
> It might, or might not, be the cheaper one. Without test
> equipment its hard to say. (I've got a 5 port Dlink that I bought about New
> Year's, which has been great.)
Too bad nobody is around to do some creditable testing on them. I don't
have access to a SmartBits anymore. I bought a NetGear FS105 in January
and pounded it with a SmartBits, it was able to sustain just under 800
Mbps through 4 ports running full-duplex. I couldn't quite figure out
how to add in the fifth port; I'm not a SmartBits expert.
I have one of the new Linksys switches now, too, and expect it perform on
par with the NetGear. The Linksys is slightly smaller, has a much more
attractive plastic case, and cost only $69 at Fry's a couple of weeks ago.
I have just about enough computers at home to do some testing with tcpdump
or spray.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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