Re: recommandations for a home Gigabit switch

On May 19, 11:45 pm, John-Paul Stewart <jpstew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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I, too, use an 8 port D-Link gigabit switch. It was quite cheap when I
bought it 4 years ago. It's adequate, but that's about all I can say
about it. It doesn't support jumbo frames and doesn't have any sort of
management features whatsoever. If I were to purchase another GigE
switch, even for home use, I'd definitely want it to support jumbo
frames. The Dell unit mentioned by the OP does, and appears to have at
least some management features too.

I'm mostly interested in the Dell because it's reasonnably cheap (99
Euros
here), it has 16 ports and it's apparently OK as a Gigabit switch.

I don't know if I'd ease the load on the CPUs by using jumbo frames
when the case I'm most interested in is transfer of huge files between
two PCs. I suppose that having less interrupt fire would be a good
thing but once again I'm a complete Gigabit ethernet newbie.

:-/

I'll probably buy it and see.

Thanks for your inputs,

Driss





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