RE: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Hubs/Switches.

[Ron and Lynn Reger]

I noticed a throughput delay with the switch (Netgear FS-105 10/100) that I had an Airpoint Pro and a Proxim 5.8Ghz Tsunami MP Subscriber Unit connected to.  I had a problem with the Airpoint and with the Proxim Unit.  I have also noticed that Cisco Aironet 340s (r.i.p.) and 350s also had the throughput delays.  It seems the more devices with different speed and duplex settings plugged into a unmanaged switch the more problems I have. I wonder if taking everything down to a 10Mbps repeater would be better, albeit you would then have to deal with a single collision domain.      

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kevin Summers
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [smartBridges] AirBridges and Hubs/Switches.

Can someone recommend an easy to find, and relatively

cheap hub or switch that the AB Ethernet port will play

nicely with?

 

I've tracked down the problem of our speed decrease as

being the switches we are using. I've now tried 3 different

types of hub and switch with the same (or worse) results.

 

Basically what I did was plug the laptop into the hub/switch

with nothing else plugged into it but the radio. Then did a

speed test. The result was between 450-600Kbps.

 

I pulled the hub/switch and plugged the radio directly into

my laptop which has an auto sense 10/100mbit Linksys USB

Ethernet adapter, and did the speed test. The results were

between 900-1000Kbps.

 

A list of known compatible switches or hubs that don't

compromise the throughput would be great.

 

Thanks.

Kevin Summers
KISTech Internet Services Inc.
www.kistech.com