[geeks] Managed Switch pointers...

[Tom Borton]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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.)
> 
> 
> 

It seems to be their newer ones; none of the ones I've had problems with 
are more than 4 years old.  Up until that point, they were favorites of 
mine, too.