Re: recommandations for a home Gigabit switch
- From: "Steve Wolfe" <htr@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 23:18:28 -0600
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.
If that's the case, any gigabit switch would work fine. If you're
transfering large files, then jumbo frames are a benefit - if your NICs
support them as well. If not, it doesn't matter if the switch does. You
won't get full gigabit speeds in any event unless your NICs are PCI-X or
PCI-E interface, but even on a plain PCI interface, you can - as you seem to
be aware - do more than most folks' hard drives will sustain.
My Linux systems have ASUS motherboards with
Gigabit ethernet onboard chips and finding Gigabit
ethernet rated cable shouldn't be too expensive.
Considering that cat-5 or cat-5e is just fine for gig-E, you bet it's not
too expensive. :-) If you were running very long runs, the cable might
become more of a factor, but I've seen abominations of cabling run pretty
well at shorter lengths. :-)
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?
It will be just fine. The NetGear gs116 is another good switch, and they
both support jumbo frames (up to 9000 bytes), but is probably a little more
expensive.
I realize it's not a $1 500 Cisco but for a home network,
would it be OK?
You'll probably get just as much speed from the one you've mentioned than
the Cisco. The advantage of Cisco switches comes when you need to do
filtering, management, or try to use your ethernet switch as a route. And I
don't know if Cisco's ethernet switches are as bad (I HOPE not), but their
routers are infamous for having the worst autonegotiation in the world. :-)
steve
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