Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed

[Michael]

On Monday, 18 January 2021 19:13:24 GMT thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> On 1/18/21 4:41 AM, bobwxc wrote:
> > 在 2021/1/18 下午6:19, J. Roeleveld 写道:
> >> On Monday, January 18, 2021 10:58:24 AM CET Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
> >>>> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 09:47
> >>>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> >>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed
> >>>>
> >>>> Some cheaper switches fail-over to hub-mode when the traffic exceeds
> >>>> what it can manage.
> >>>
> >>> Interesting, do you have pointers to such switches' specs? Or is it from
> >>> experience?
> >
> > That's true.
> > Some cheap switches may become like a network cable when it fails or
> > exceeds network flow. And there is also no log to check, will cause some
> > strange problems.
> >
> > Actually , some business machines also have such a policy that they become
> > straight through or completely blocked in case of failure. But they have
> > a fail log for review.>
> >> This is from experience, also 1 of the reasons why I switched to managed
> >> switches.
>
> What switch would you folks recommend?
> I'm planning getting to the bottom of it including replacing switch and
> cable if I have to.

I've had a look recently at unmanaged switches.  Vanilla plug 'n play 
unmanaged switches are mostly the same internally, although some more 
expensive pro-sumer offerings have larger jumbo frame size capability.

As already mentioned, reliability is questionable.  In the end I decided to 
buy Linksys LGS108 (now owned by Belkin) because their chips are different to 
Netgear/TP-Link/D-link, all of which have received poor reviews on consumer 
sites.  Given they all eventually fail, a longer warranty may be a better 
determinant.