Q-Tec switch rubbish

[NetFiend]

Hi, I would like to complain to the world that the 16 port Q-Tec 100mbit switch i bought is a pile of ****, and advise everyone not to buy their stuff. With only 2 or 3 machines plugged in and running normal internet apps, it takes less than an hour for my ping to a test site to go from 30ms down to 130ms to 1000ms, etc.
It _was_ cheap, but it's a switch! I expected it to... yknow... switch packets. Not keep them for it's own personal enjoyment.

 

[freebsdrules]

Never heard of them and there's probably a reason for it...while you don't need a cisco switch for basic home networking, I would stick to the known, decent brands.

 

[spidey07]

well it certainly would be unusual for a switch to introduce that kind of latency. I think your problem lies elsewhere, not in the switch.

 

[NetFiend]

i have found that simply turning off bittorrent solves the problem, but it is still the switch's fault (or the router's) for not being able to handle the connections

 

[spidey07]

I would look at the router then. Switches are pretty dumb and I can't believe a switch would add lateny. They operate at layer2 so the number of connections is irrelevant.

Try taking the switch out of the mix and see if the symptoms persist.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: NetFiend
i have found that simply turning off bittorrent solves the problem, but it is still the switch's fault (or the router's) for not being able to handle the connections

if turning off bittorrent solves the problem then it is almost certainly not the switch. To test it, you should try network tests against another machine connected to the same machine. not a machine on the internet.

that'd be like saying honda civics suck because they only go 5 mph in a traffic jam, but work fine on empty highways.

 

[NetFiend]

They operate at layer2 so the number of connections is irrelevant.

Of course, i should have thought of that. I got the switch about the same time i started using bittorrent and (for some reason) assumed it was the switch causing the problem. Time for a better router then.

that'd be like saying honda civics suck because they only go 5 mph in a traffic jam, but work fine on empty highways.

More like saying the roads suck, but i see what you mean.

Civics suck becuase they are front wheel drive and have no torque