[geeks] Managed gigabit switch recommendations for the home?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:05 -0400
"Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, they are all gigabit.

Other devices are not: Portmaster, VOIP, SG300, and my Suns are all 100baseT.

That would for now give me enough ports.

The next issue is space to have both switches running.



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