- Looking for opinions/recomendations for 24-port switches
- Posted by Net Guy on March 18th, 2006
The following is a short-list of 24-port gigabit switches, sorted by
price (low to high) from $370 to $590 (street price).
Looking for comments/recomendations. This is for a small Windoze
network connected to the I-net behind a SpeedStream modem/nat-router.
PC's on the network will be a mix of 98/2K/NT. Netbeiu is main (or
only) file-sharing protocal. TCP will (naturally) be used (mainly for
direct internet access by individual PC's). Only major file-sharing
app will be AccPac (Pervasive SQL).
D-Link DGS-1024D 24-Port 10/100/1000 Unmanaged Layer 2 Gigabit swtc
Netgear JGS524 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Netgear JGS524F 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Network Switch
D-Link DGS-1224T 24-Port Layer 2 Gigabit Switch
Netgear GS724T 24-Port Gigabit Smart Switch
Linksys SR2024 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop Network Switch
3COM 3C17304 24-Port 10/100/1000 SuperStack 3 4228G Switch
Netgear GS524T 24-port 10/100/1000 Copper Gigabit Switch
Linksys SRW2024 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Managed Network Switch
Haven't looked at gigabit ethernet cards for the PC's. Anything I
should be aware of / look out for? (do they all have drivers for
win-98?)
- Posted by Al Dykes on March 18th, 2006
In article <441B6520.4B8F4A55@Guy.com>, Net Guy <Net@Guy.com> wrote:
without a server, IMO GBE clients are pointless. A server with a GBE
interface to a switch with all the clients running 100MB is what I
would be planning on. I'd get rid of the 98 machines and moving to an
all-TCP network. (i was once told 98 can be run as TCP only but I
never played with it.)
Go for a managed switch.
How close are you to the 24 port size? If you see yourself hitting
that wall, pick a swicth that has a good sollution for stacking.
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- Posted by none on March 18th, 2006
They all look about the same, but you'll need to look more closely at the
specs. The 3COM switch in your list has only 4 ports gigabit, the other port
are only fast ethernet, for example (and its disconitued).
Some of them are managed (like the Netgear GS724T and D-Link DGS-1224T), I'd
go for a managed switch over unmanaged.
Some of them are "last years models", I'd definitely go for the current
version. A lot of them are similar, probably based on the same chipset so it
comes down to service and support.
Plain gigabit is a medium improvement, if you want to see good speed
increases you'll want switches and adapters that support jumbo frames. I
don't think you're going to see a lot of performance with NetBEUI (I could
be wrong though, I stopped using it after Win95).
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- Posted by William P.N. Smith on March 18th, 2006
Net Guy <Net@Guy.com> wrote:
Dunno about the others, but I'd take D-Link off the list. I've had
nothing but trouble with their products...
- Posted by William P.N. Smith on March 18th, 2006
adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:
I tend to get 200 megabits between reasonably modern machines doing
file copies over a gigabit network, so it's not completely
unreasonable, and you'll need it someday...
I'd second the reccomendation for a managed switch, and you might want
to think about PoE or other things if you have any use for that kind
of thing now...
- Posted by Randy R on March 29th, 2006
Anyone used Zyxel layer 2 manages switches?
http://www.us.zyxel.com/products/cat...e =1028014886
These are very reasonably priced. I am looking at the ES-2024 which has
2 gigabit uplink ports:
http://tinyurl.com/eqb4t
Randy R
