Buffalo BS-MP2008 8-Port Multi-GbE Switch Review

Benchmark: 1 Gigabit Ethernet

The Gigabit Ethernet performance is tested between Intel I217-V and I219-V network interfaces. Switches without 1Gbps ports will use the faster 10Gbps ports. However, when 1Gbps ports are present, those are used.

TCP Performance

To test the maximum throughput ability, I send a fixed block size of 16384 bytes. The test runs for a period of five minutes. With a higher block size, we are sure to get as high a result as possible. A similar scenario you’re familiar with, is with files. When you copy a single large file, it is faster than copying a lot of small files. Even though the two setups have the same total size.

In a real-world situation, the blocks of data that pass through a network adaptor are not of the same size each time. To give a more realistic impression of how an adaptor performs, the adaptor is once again tested for five minutes. However, this time the block size will vary from 32 Bytes up to 16384 Bytes in increasing steps of 148.7 Bytes each time.

UDP Performance

To test the maximum throughput ability, I send a fixed block size of 16384 bytes. The test runs for a period of five minutes. With a higher block size, we are sure to get as high a result as possible. A similar scenario you’re familiar with, is with files. When you copy a single large file, it is faster than copying a lot of small files. Even though the two setups have the same total size.

In a real-world situation, the blocks of data that pass through a network adaptor are not of the same size each time. To give a more realistic impression of how an adaptor performs, the adaptor is once again tested for five minutes. However, this time the block size will vary from 32 Bytes up to 16384 Bytes in increasing steps of 148.7 Bytes each time.

Product Comparison

For the product comparison, I’ll be using the average performance as primary sorting.