What I am gathering is that you are looking to by a off brand switch? If this is the case, then I would argue reliability and speed aren't important to you, but rather price, so go for what you can afford I guess. If you lack the knowledge to purchase a switch or test it properly, I would hire a professional services company that can do this for you and stand by their product/decisions. Of course, that would be expensive, and sort of goes against buying a cheap switch in the first place. Most vendors that you should be shopping in the first place, publish data on their switches that is a decent guide to performance at a distance. Just make sure your comparing apples to apples (packet sizes, features, etc). There are also some independent tests you can find such as miercom. Brian On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Deric Kwok wrote:

Hi

I am requested to get not brand list switch

how can I test it? any software or methods

eg: reliable speed or any need

Thank you so much