network hub/switch

[chrissi-b]

Hi all,

I thought I was well up on this, being a network support engineer, but in trying to improve my network at home, I bought a small 8 port hub, in an effort to improve speeds over wifi.

Expecting faster speeds than troubled wifi, I assumed the ports speeds, would be far better, but it turns out that my 10/100 ethernet ports are giving no more the 9-10mb/s on each port. making the 23mb/s on wifi seem positively supersonic in comparison.

This led me to want to buy a new hub, with faster ports, but in all the sales blurb, I can't find one which actually says what the ports are giving.
Yes they all say 10/100/1000, and even state Gigabit speeds, but no one actually states what is guaranteed out of each port.
Also get annoyed by sellers calling them switches, when they are no more than hubs.

So my question, can anyone point me to a hub or switch, which actually has more than 10mb/s port speed. Obviously I could buy a Cisco switch, but that would be 5 times the price, so anything reasonably priced please.

 

[ChrisD.]

Not sure where to start here, but if you are a network engineer then surely you know that hubs are different than switches, and also that 100 Mbps will only give you ~10 MB/s?

Netgear give you packet forwarding rate and non-blocking throughput as an example:

https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS308v3/300-Series_Gigabit_DS.pdf

TP Link also do:

https://static.tp-link.com/2021/202101/20210107/TL-SG105(UN)5.0&TL-SG108(UN)6.0&TL-SG116(UN)1.0_Datasheet.pdf

 

[andy_mk3]

Surely you'd struggle to even buy a 100Mb/Fast Ethernet switch these days, they've been obsolete for years. Sure you're not the cleaner for the network support department?

 

[Sparx]

No chance you're a network support engineer after what I just read...

 

[Deleted member 77746]

This reminds me of the lad who put liquid pro thermal compound on the cpu and took a rage quit and said he has loads of qualifications and he’s a technician so knows better. LOL.

*EPIC THREAD* Major Problems with Coollaboratory Liquid Pro Thermal Compound DEAD CPU

hey guys, jsut had a lot of problems with this paste stuff, im wondering if any of you guys have had trouble with it? i wouldnt even class it as a paste becuase it has the qualitys of mecury :S input and opinions welcome

forums.overclockers.co.uk

You want a switch that gives 1gb speeds on each port as long as your cables decent enough and you have a gig network card you should be getting good speeds.

 

[ChrisD.]

Wonder if OP also complains about progression.

 

[WJA96]

Surely you'd struggle to even buy a 100Mb/Fast Ethernet switch these days, they've been obsolete for years. Sure you're not the cleaner for the network support department?

There are lots of devices that don’t need gigabit speed switching (surveillance cameras, alarm systems, printers and almost anything IoT) so 10/100 switches are very common because they’re significantly cheaper than gigabit. A 16 port 10/100 PoE switch with a couple of 1GbE uplink ports is about £40.