[geeks] Managed gigabit switch recommendations for the home?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:08 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Actually, I'm already using more ports than that.
> 
> I work from home, so all my embedded/server machines from work sit here with
> my personal stuff.

Yes, but do all of your embedded machines have gigabit?  If not, connect
only machines with gigabit to the gigabit switch, along with your old
3Com.

> 16 ports might be enough. 
> 
> My superstack has 24 of them.
> 
> This HP unit is still expensive, but I guess you have to pay good money for a
> nice managed switch.
> 
> Yes, I know it pays for itself in time.  I just wasn't wanting to spend 300
> or more right now.