On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:12:40PM -0600, Mark Paulus wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a bit of advice on some home networking issues. > > I have 2 WinXp machines, a print server, and my D-LINK DI-524 upstairs > on an AOPEN 8port 10/100 Hub. Hub is connected to a CISCO 1538 8 port > CISCO MicroHub in the basement, which is supporting 1 win2k, and 3 > Debian Boxen, 2 of which are Mythtv MBE/SBE, and my mvpmc. MVPMC is > talking to Mythtv 0.19 BE, via NFS. > > I have noticed at times that I seem to be getting a fair amount of > collisions. > > I have also noticed at times that my mvpmc stutters during playback, but > I wasn't sure if that was due to network bandwidth issues, or machine > load issues. > > To help with load issues, I have replaced my AMD SocketA XP 2700+ with a > S939 Opteron 144. > > What I am wondering is, would I get any better network performance if I > were to replace my 1538 hub with a 1548 Managed or Unmanaged Switch. > And, if so, which to choose (What's the advantage/disadvantage of > managed vs unmanaged switches, besides the cost?)
Managed switches are the sort of things that if you don't know you need one, you don't need one. For me the advantage of using managed switches at home is to VLAN the network for use with my firewall. At work above and beyond VLANs we need port security and SNMP monitoring/management. I don't think you'll be needing any of that. Really you just need a decent quality unmanaged switch, 100Mb will do. At the same time make sure you get some decent quality network cards. Some cards only give me 3MB/s but a decent one will manage over 10MB/s. Personally I prefer Intel EEPRO cards. Mike -- Mike Richardson Networks IT Services, University of Manchester Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Plain text only please - attachments stripped on arrival* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
