I dunno. Here's my personal experience:
Of 3 Cisco 2924's, which I have had for 5+ years on average. All
bought on eBay. One blew a single port during a power brownout which
all 3 experienced.
Of 6 Dells ranging from 48-port 10/100 to 24-port GigE, all fully
managed, all bought brand new - no failures of any kind. Had these
for about 1yr on average
Of 6 small/cheap network devices, I have:
1 Linksys 8-port 10/100 hub (5+yrs old) - randomly reboots
or loses link briefly. once per week. No movement required.
1 DLink 8-port hub (5+yrs old) - if you jiggle or wiggle
anything on it, it will reboot.
1 Linksys 8-port GigE switch - no problems. Less than 1yr old.
1 Linksys router with 8 switch ports (5+yrs old) - very rare
lockups. Usually when there are high packets per second
1 Linksys 802.11b Access Point / switch (5+yrs old) - Stops
doing wireless periodically, needs to be rebooted to fix.
1 Bufflao 802.11g Access Point / switch - No issues. About 2yrs old.
Now that I put them all out like that, it seems to me that the older
stuff is buggy or broken while the newer stuff is flawless. Perhaps
it's all the bangs and bumps (car rides, re-rackings, etc) the older
stuff has had. It does seem that the older cheap stuff is worse off
then the older good stuff. Aside from the bashing that some give the
Dells (mostly from Cisco snobs), I am very happy with them so far.
They even have 10GigE port available on some models now. The prices
are very good as well. I realize that they might not be cheap enough
for a CB, but if that CB desn't want to by the same thing over and
over again... well, ya know.
So, maybe too low end, but how old are these things when they start
to die (or you start to kill them) ?
Mike
At 03:46 PM 2/19/2007, you wrote:
Has anyone else had such bad experiences with switches?
I have had 3 different devices fail. First, a 5-port Dlink DSS-5+
(10/100) seemed to lose one of it's ports (a year-or-two ago).
Then another 5-port 10/100, this one a Hawking, actually fried itself.
A couple weeks later, a Dlink DSS-8+ started losing it's memory (I
think). It works for a while upon power up, but then fails to connect
(eg, a ping) in from one port out to another.
I'm even wondering whether the second burn-up may have put overvoltages
on the line and damaged the other -- can that happen?
Am I'm buying too low on the cheap scale?
Regards,
..jim
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