On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote: > As for the larger switches I've used Linksys SRW224P. I have a few > running for a few years without issues. They have GB uplink but the > individual ports are 100M.
I recently purchased a few SRW208P switches. They work fine. If you run Windows. Granted a lot of people run windows instead of Mac or Linux, but be aware (to those looking) that the SRW line of switches REQUIRE Internet Explorer on Windows. The support site says it is recommended, but even the login page does not work properly on anything but IE on Windows. For me, as a Mac user, it is enough to not buy any more of those ever again. On the other side, We have a dozen switches in the SGE2000, SGE2000P and SGE2010P series that all work perfectly and with any browser I have tried. Some may wonder why I would buy a 24/48-port fully gigabit switch. It is because I don't want to have to think, or even keep track, of which port on the wall is PoE and which is Gigabit. I just want to plug it in and work. I want to be able to tell my staff "Just plug your phone in and it will work, don't worry about trying to find a power adapter". The extra money is worth not trying to keep track of which is which. The SGE2000 switches we bought before the SGE2000P came down in price (it used to be like 4 times the non-PoE version). Now, at a $220 difference ($880 verses $660) there is no question. Beyond that, they work great. VLAN setup and use is simple. Link Aggregation works perfectly. STP works like a charm (no more running around trying to figure out what idiot patched their wall jack into another wall jack). The ability to transfer the switches configuration to a TFTP server (and HTTP in the 2010 version, 2000 is using old firmware) makes it easy to backup the configuration and restore it to a new switch in the event of complete failure. Daniel _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users