[geeks] Managed Switch pointers...

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Fri Jun 16 08:31:23 CDT 2006


On 6/16/06, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 06:54, Tom Borton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I have found that anything made by Netgear that has a metal case, is
> usually OK.  Anything made by Netgear that has a plastic case, is the

This has been my experience as well.  I've got a netgear gigabit
switch (metal case), hasn't been reset in 2 years, works fine.  I've
got a pile of netgear stuff with plastic cases that just plain doesn't
work anymore.  Most of them seemed to overheat.

Caleb



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