[geeks] Seems like low-cost Cisco 10/100 switches are available

[Joshua Boyd]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>> This is something I'm trying to understand - in the home environment
>> surely there would be greater benefit from buying a gigabit commodity
>> switch rather than a 'good' 100M managed switched, especially if your
>> home LAN is of a simple structure with just a single good-enough
>> switch. Since I've never owned enterprise-grade switches, please feel
>> free to educate ;-)
>
> To be honest, now that I own a commodity gigabit switch, I wish now  
> more
> than ever it was managed. I can't use jumbo frames because I have non
> gigabit equipment on my LAN and my switch doesn't support VLANs.  
> Sadly,
> managed gigabit switches are still a bit pricey for the home user.

And they aren't quiet enough.

In my basement I do have a managed GigE switch.  However, I could  
really use a managed switch in my office because of having both FastE  
and GigE (and wishing the GigE would be jumbo frames), but I don't  
want the noise.  I'm likely to end up putting both an 8 port GigE  
switch and an 8 port FastE in the office when a single managed 8 port  
GigE would be adequate.