Bought a new Switch for home...

deth1k

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

Roguetadhg

I have no idea what you just said. But it was the more beautiful thing I've ever read.

veritas_libertas

Nice! I need to upgrade my 8 port from 10/100 to Gigabit in the future. I've been unimpressed by Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys.

Tackle

I just bought one of these in June. It was the only 5 port switch for $20 I could find on that day. Nice to hear it performs well!

deth1k

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Nice! I need to upgrade my 8 port from 10/100 to Gigabit in the future. I've been unimpressed by Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys.

Worth a try mate, it's very cheap and surprisingly enough does what it says on the tin 1Gig switch to be exact, did i mention 5W of power use at max? :P I wasn't expecting anything near a gig out of it to be fair, outperforms some major players in the networking world in terms of loss when tested using Spirent

Legacy User

You'd be surprised how many cisco switches fail the load test with the Spirent tester.

Akaricloud

That's impressive for the price. I'll definitely look into one if I need a home switch in the near future.