Tamarin, Mr. Thiggins,
this is a very good point. I'd like to share an experience I had this month. I configured my 2 GS108T switches (which are connected via and uplink) to segregate my SO and Home (entertainment/internet) traffic using the 802.1Q functionality within the switches. As soon as the PVID for a port was changed on one port performance went through the floor.
Functionally everything worked fine the broadcast domains were segregated but the performance was so bad I had to scrap the idea and resort to port based VLAN configuration (making it very difficult for multi-switch environment). To give you an idea of the sort of performance loss, and this is a simple test I know, I continuously pinged various devices [originally just to see if segregation was working] and as soon as the 802.1Q config was saved and I tried to 'use' the network millisecond count to my NAS went from <2ms to and average of 600-800ms and at worst case 3500ms! Throughput on file transfer went from just under 3Mb/s [wireless 11g] to 80Kb/s. After poking about for a long time I concluded that the processors in the GS108T were either not up to the job or the code they were running wasnt.
I know you have such a device Mr. Thiggins and would suggest you give it a whirl!
Best wishes,
Griffo.
this is a very good point. I'd like to share an experience I had this month. I configured my 2 GS108T switches (which are connected via and uplink) to segregate my SO and Home (entertainment/internet) traffic using the 802.1Q functionality within the switches. As soon as the PVID for a port was changed on one port performance went through the floor.
Functionally everything worked fine the broadcast domains were segregated but the performance was so bad I had to scrap the idea and resort to port based VLAN configuration (making it very difficult for multi-switch environment). To give you an idea of the sort of performance loss, and this is a simple test I know, I continuously pinged various devices [originally just to see if segregation was working] and as soon as the 802.1Q config was saved and I tried to 'use' the network millisecond count to my NAS went from <2ms to and average of 600-800ms and at worst case 3500ms! Throughput on file transfer went from just under 3Mb/s [wireless 11g] to 80Kb/s. After poking about for a long time I concluded that the processors in the GS108T were either not up to the job or the code they were running wasnt.
I know you have such a device Mr. Thiggins and would suggest you give it a whirl!
Best wishes,
Griffo.
