Hey guys,
For those of you who are looking at buying a small home switch (not lab use) and want a decent throughput i.e line rate 1Gbps have a look at TP-LINK SG1005D this is a 5 port model (also comes in 8 and 16). Just blasted it with Spirent tester at work using 200 flows 64 byte UDP (4 ports plugged into tester) tested full mesh got 4Gig full duplex with 0% loss running at 100%.
Though i'd share this, nice and cheap product