[geeks] Managed Switch pointers...

[Phil Stracchino]

Tom Borton wrote:
> While I've had good luck with Justdeals, I have had lousy luck with 
> Netgear 100 Mbit and gigabit unmanaged switches.  I run two different 
> labs which currently use a total of 10 different Netgear switches, and I 
> have to power cycle one at least once a week.  They simply stop 
> switching and drop traffic on the floor.

I've had my Netgear FS516 for ... uh ... um, at least seven years now, I
think, and it's never so much as hiccuped, except for the cooling fan
that wore out.  (Whereupon I replaced both cooling fans with maglev fans.)



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