What's your price point? Here's some more options:
HP ProCurve 1800-8G (J9029A) - 8 10/100/1000 ports for US$140 with the HP lifetime warranty, web-managed but no CLI HP ProCurve 1700-8 (J9079A) - 7 10/100 and 1 10/100/100 for US$80 with the HP lifetime warranty, web-managed but no CLI Watch for a ProCurve 2600-8-PWR (J8762A) on eBay A ProCurve 2610-24/12-PWR (J9086A) - similar price to the J8762A Cisco 2960-8TC-S - If you're looking at Linksys or Netgear it might be a little rich for your blood @ US$480 (as seen on buy.com) My thoughts: Avoid the Linksys SRW2008P and SRW2008MP! Bad experiences there - have to powercycle the switch 2x or 3x per day. No experience with the newer Linksys switches, but based on my experience with stuff 2 or 3 years old I'd be wary of the newer stuff. Be wary of "Cisco Small Business" switches you see @ Fry's or Best Buy - they're rebranded Linksys. Always check the NewEgg reviews! Ben Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone have any recommendations for compact managed switches? > Something in the 5 to 10 port range. Ideally, PoE as an option would > be nice. 10/100 is all we need for the station ports; it would be > nice if the uplink was gig. > > Management features I'm interested in include: Port status, port > enable/disable, VLANs, VLAN prioritization, SNMP queryable for > performance monitoring. I'm a CLI guy, so management with SSH would > be nice, but I suppose I can live with a web GUI if I have to. > > I've got the typical situation where management planned poorly and > we now have a few locations where we have N network jacks and N+X > network nodes to plug in (X varies from 1 to 4). We've got SOHO > unmanaged mini-switches in these places, but I've never liked doing > that. Most of these don't *need* PoE, although it won't hurt if they > have it. > > I've also got a new outlying building I need to bring up. It's only > going to need three or four network jacks, so I'm somewhat reluctant > to spend the money on a full-size 24-port PoE switch. However, it's > also a longer distance than I can do without a switch, so I need > something. > > I've found various prospects[1], but I'd like to hear from actual > experience. > > [1] LinkSys SFE1000P; NetGear GS108T; ZyXEL ES-2108; SMC SMC6709GL2; > D-Link DES-3010 > > advTHANKSance -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
