OT: Network Speed

[dennis]

All of mine can from the £9 one to the £50 one.

[Roger Hayter]

I think this is a minimum requirement for a switch. And the reason that a sixteen port switch is more than twce as expensive as an eight port one.

[Bob Eager]

I chose to get two 24 port switches rather than one 48 port one. It wasn't so much the cost, but the extra CPU power needed meant that the 48 port one had a fan - another point of failure, and source of noise.

[dennis]

That's because you can buy a single chip that will do eight ports of dumb switch. I don't think you can buy a single chip solution for 16 ports.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Roger Hayter escribió:

Correct on both counts.

[Vir Campestris]

Have you done the experiments? I don't have enough gig-capable gear to be able to run two flat out workloads simultaneously.

Andy

[Roger Hayter]

The most I've ever had at home is two independent streams at about

80MB/s and 50MB/s (ie probably more than the equivalent of 1Gb/s) through a 16 port unmanaged switch at the same time. Rather a small fraction of what should be possible. But I was talking about minimum published specifications rather than what they can actually do in practice!