or a gpen21 its a 3 port switch with one being an SFP
I also often use the TP-LINK TL-SG105 I'm pretty sure they are about
4"4"x1" and there under $20 I pick a couple up every time I'm at
microcenter.
On 8/16/22 9:26 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
Lookup the MikroTik hAP mini, even without case, or the 2-port mAP. I
don't think that you can get smaller without extreme engineering.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 8:35 PM Robert, <i...@avantwireless.com
<mailto:i...@avantwireless.com>> wrote:
get a tempest
On 8/16/22 12:36 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
>
> We have this Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station. We've had it
for at
> least 12 or 14 years. For quite some time, we had it in our utility
> room where it was out of the way. Because the utility room was
kind of
> central to the main part of the house, we also had our WiFi AP
located
> in that room, and they both ran off a small (Netgear) 5-port
switch,
> which relayed to our router at the far end of the house. Never
had a
> problem with it.
>
> We recently started refreshing the utility room. Nothing
drastic, just
> fresh floor, paint, and trim. In the process we moved the WAP to a
> place we call "the alcove", which is still fairly centrally
located,
> but has better clearance to the outside/deck area. So we moved the
> switch there and put our VoIP phones on the switch with the WAP.
>
> So the weather station is now on a dedicated ethernet connection
back
> to the router. Suddenly the weather station "stalls out" after a
bunch
> of "excessive collision/speed mismatch" errors. Sometimes it
runs for
> 4 or 5 hours, sometimes it runs a day or two, but always gets to
the
> stalling out phase after a bunch of ethernet errors.
>
> So I started looking into the ethernet interface on the weather
> station. Turns out, it's an obsolete data logger contraption that
> Davis no longer makes, and it runs 10Base-T half duplex. Erg. I got
> into the router and set the port that it's on to 10/half dux,
and it
> actually seems to run longer this way, but still gets to the too
many
> errors condition after a while.
>
> I think I've come to the conclusion that the funky little data
logger
> goober on the weather station is just not very robust. I think if I
> put another switch or ethernet repeater co-located with the weather
> station, I can get it back to the state of mostly working (or at
least
> with a stall rate that is measured in months/years instead of
> hours/days).
>
> So what I'm looking for is the smallest/tiniest ethernet switch (or
> maybe just a repeater) that can be installed on the wall next to
the
> weather station console as possible. This may be difficult, as the
> Netgear fast switch we had there is only 4x4 inches. Just
wondering if
> there was something even smaller?
>
> The other option is (maybe) a Raspberry Pi that has two ethernet
ports
> on it? We run the weather station with a Raspberry Pi 3 that is
> located elsewhere on the LAN, but it only has 1 ethernet port. If
> there was one with two, I could just plop the pi next to the
weather
> station.
>
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