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 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.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.
KeS
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