[geeks] Managed gigabit switch recommendations for the home?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 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...

I have the 8-port version.  Works ok.

Peace...  Sridhar