Interesting experience with a new switch!

[faxfan]

Hi All,

Thought I'd share an experience with a new switch I recently replaced. I had a NETGEAR GS110TP-200EUS and was lucky enough to acquire (from work, for, erm, testing) a Cisco WS-C3560CX-12PC-S as a replacement. Now here is the interesting bit, using the exactly the same wiring my transfer times from the PC to the NAS (Ubuntu 14 using Samba) went from a variable 70-80Mb/s to a constant 100Mb/s or a touch more.

I really wasn't expecting such a performance increase (if any). Thought I'd share!

 

[bledd]

Every switch I've used has been solid at 110+, even a cheapy belkin 5 port

 

[faxfan]

I guess it's relative, the max wire speed is ~120 and given I have no bottleneck either side apart from the OS's (the pc has read speed in excess of 3Gb/s -> Ubuntu ~300Mb/s) I'm pretty happy with that. However a cheapy Belkin could be a way forward if it outperforms enterprise class switches - do you have the model number?

 

[kayomani]

On pretty much every switch I use I get 112 exactly, perhaps you have jumbo packets to get the extra or something.

 

[Steveocee]

It sounds like your old netgear was holding you back. I regularly got 112MB across a couple of cheap zyxel switches with hardware qos.

 

[thenewoc]

Maybe a difference in the size of frames each is using.

 

[bledd]

I guess it's relative, the max wire speed is ~120 and given I have no bottleneck either side apart from the OS's (the pc has read speed in excess of 3Gb/s -> Ubuntu ~300Mb/s) I'm pretty happy with that. However a cheapy Belkin could be a way forward if it outperforms enterprise class switches - do you have the model number?

It's probably down to your adapters/hard drives.

I use Intel adapters.

I wouldn't recommend anything Belkin tbh , was just commenting on my experience. I've never seen a switch NOT perform at full speed, unless there's a dodgy cable involved.