Ryan,
You just shared a magic thingy! VOiP!!! I do not do this. Did not do it
when I made my 'switch upgrade' decision. This may be a very good reason
for our different choices.
Certainly I am more LAN feature-less that most on our List. Fine.
Best,
Duncan
Ryan Vorachek wrote:
As far as I know there is nothing wrong with the Dell switches. I've
never used one, but they do look feature rich. Possibly more feature
rich than any home network needs, but that's not a bad thing. :) We
ended up with Procurves as they were tested to work with out new VoIP
phone system and the Dells were... Cisco was, but the sticker shock was
too great on those for the owners (and me). I really do like PoE, don't
use it for too much yet except the phones and a wireless access point,
but it is really neat.
Yeah my old SMCs do jumb-frames.... still have yet to test that too. I
used to run a pair of netgear 316 or something like that (3xx series
10/100 switches anyway) and liked them. The SMCs are basically a faster
version of those... i.e. a typical unmanaged switch. I would at times
very much like a managed switch at home, but never have pulled the
trigger on one. :)
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:49 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes!
Ryan,
Can not say that Procurve switches were not mentioned when I converted
from 10/100 switches to 10/100/1000 switches some time back. I chose to
go with a pair of Dell PowerConnect 2716's. The home LAN has never been
as nice as it is now. And, I still have not started to play with
"jumbo-frames."
Next time, maybe the Procurve's.......... :)
Best,
Duncan
Ryan Vorachek wrote:
I'll second that. We switched to Procurve switches a couple years ago
from 3com stuff. The HP switches are fast and built like tanks. That
said we did loose one during a firmware update. Flashed the ROM and
waited for it to come back up.... and waited... and waited...
called
HP support. I remember the guy stating that this is very unusual and
the first time he's seen this. The good news is HP shipped out one
next
day air so all was happy quickly. (apart from the creative wire
rerouting that I had to do while the switch was down.)
I would love Procurves at home, but my rather old SMC gigabit switches
are working well enough to not justify the upgrade cost. :)
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Julian Zottl
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:28 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes!
Procurve's are great switches. For any Enterprise customers out
there,
I
highly recommend them. They have served me well at a couple of
companies!
----
Julian
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar <
zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com> wrote:
Just wanted to share my experiences regarding my foray into switches.
Initially I used the switch that came with the router. However,
since
getting my Windows Home Server, I now regularly transfer several
hundred
gigabytes at a time. As you would imagine 10/100 just did not cut it
for me. I looked around and settled on a nice 3Com gigabit switch
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1ZA0G/ref=ox_ya_oh_product)
and
it served me quite well for almost 1 year. As my devices grew and my
server balooned to 8 TB of storage, I was abusing the little switch
to
oblivion.
After doing a bit of searching around, I settled on
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I7SWLO/ref=ox_ya_oh_product)
and
all I can say is that I am one happy camper! I know this seems odd,
but
the performance change was quite noticeable. Before, I would feel
the
3Com switch struggling during multi computer transfers (i.e copying
100GB from computer A -> B and simultaneously from C -> D). But now,
I
feel that doing the same exercise on the ProCurve is much faster.
Also, having a metal case and a web UI also helps.
All-in-all, I am one happy camper!
Highly recommended for anyone out there!
