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I was wondering if LinusTechTips could do some speed testing with a bunch of different brands of network switches....not wifi....just good old fashioned hard coded network.  I'm tired of engineers saying cisco is everything....when i have myself dropped small biz cisco for major speed increases with other brands.  So if you could do a video of cisco...trendnet...ubuiquity...netgear...etc..etc... just to show everyone that some switches are much faster and just as steady as others.  10GB is welcomed.

I would very much appreciate this.

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If your switch can't do line rate, regardless of vendor, then either your turning on features that aren't handled in the ASIC causing the CPU to choke or you broke something. Any switch, operating at L2 only, will forward line rate unless it's some knockoff pile of junk from 10 years ago and trying to switch in CPU only. Heck, there are tons of L3 capable switches that can do line rate as well on the market but they are going to be more expensive.

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For day to day use by a regular person or even a small office with a few computers, almost any switch will work just as well

 

The differences will be when you use more advanced features and a mix of functionality  like multiple vlans, maybe port mirroring, ipv6 , lots of simultaneous connections, mix of sfp+ / sfp/ rj45 , latency sensitive applications, qos... 

 

I've worked as a network admin in a university campus maybe 10-15 years ago... had 3 allied telesys gigabit switches connected together using proprietary cable (~17gbps) that basically connected 4 floors of students together, around 100 computers in total.

Then this building was connected to other 4 buildings, with the furthest around 102 meters away based on cable length (yeah, more than the legal 100 meters, but did gigabit just fine with no packet loss)

So overall we had 200-300 students exchanging files through dc++ and ftp between themselves... back then you would had a hard time doing that with regular network switches.

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Heh, also had a DC++ network at my engineering school back in 2003... the school had 2 campuses in 2 cities that were on the same network so we had to be careful to put our location in our nicks and not download from the other site as that went over backbone lines they had to pay for bandwidth on. 

 

Some rooms still had 10Mbps hubs, and it was super funny to run a packet capture program, tell another guy i the room to go load some random pic on the net, and show it to him on your screen 😆

 

Regarding the question, any pro grade switch should spec pretty well what it's capable of. Even my $35 home grade managed 8-port switch does.

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