[geeks] Managed gigabit switch recommendations for the home?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: nate at portents.com
>Date: 2007/07/30 Mon PM 01:26:50 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] Managed gigabit switch recommendations for the home?

>> Most of my machines are gigabit, but my switch is an older 3Com
>> SuperStack, and new switches worth having are more than I wanted to pay
>> right now.
>>
>> If anyone has recommendations for good gigaswitches that aren't expensive,
>> I'm all ears.
>
>I'm assuming you're interested in managed switches, and I recently was
>interested in the same thing, did some initial looking, and thought this
>might be ok for a home network managed gigabit switch, but don't have any
>experience with it:
>
>HP J9029A 10/100/1000Mbps ProCurve Switch 1800-8G $154
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833316053
>
>Anyone with any thoughts/experience?  On paper it looks good to me because
>it is managed, it doesn't have any fans so wouldn't be noisy on a desk,
>and has an ok number of ports for the price.

Nice, and for greater needs:

http://www.provantage.com/hewlett-packard-hp-j9028b-aba~7HEWN1CF.htm

$370 24 port web managed 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch

No exp. with either...

Lionel