Re: recommandations for a home Gigabit switch

On Sat, 19 May 2007 12:12:46 -0700, neuneudr wrote:

Hi again,

I'm looking for a relatively cheap Gigabit switch for my home network.

I'm currently running on 100Mbit/s ethernet and I'm clearly saturating
the link everytime I send huge files (either through NFS or SCP,
depending on what I'm doing...).

I'm not hoping to do sustained 100 MB/s file transfer (I know my hard
disks wouldn't follow), but I'm looking for something faster than what I
already have.

My Linux systems have ASUS motherboards with Gigabit ethernet onboard
chips and finding Gigabit ethernet rated cable shouldn't be too
expensive.

So basically all I need is a switch, preferably with 16 ports (I've got
several PCs and two network printers). I'm on a budget and although I'm
usually not a huge Dell fan (I have one LCD from Dell bought 4 years ago
and that's it), I was thinking of this :

99 Euros (around $130 USD) : PowerConnect 2716

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/
pwcnt_2716?c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&cs=ukbsdt1

I think it's manufactured by HP.

Would that be an OK Gigabit ethernet switch? Are there gotchas?

I realize it's not a $1 500 Cisco but for a home network, would it be
OK?

Thanks for your lights, I'm a complete Gigabit ethernet newbie,

Driss

I've got a couple of 8 port Netgears and an 8 port Dlink, they work fine.
I see that the Netgears are available for less than $50 on Newegg, there
is a Dlink for $40.
.

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