The core questions to ask/look for are: a) How much sustained switching is this thing going to be doing? Cheaper switches mostly have crap switching fabric, so while you have 24 ports of 1G copper, the backplane may only be able to switch at 2-20Gb. b) Check the per port q buffers. If you expect to be running Jumbo Frames (9000 Byte MTU) then you will need to ensure the per port queue buffers are up to par anything less than 32Kb of buffer per port is going to cause issues. c) Do you actually need the switch to have "managed" feature sets? Per Port VLAN tagging etc, Management/console connections? And if you do, is there a reason you can't hook it up to a BSD/Linux PC acting as router and doing these fancy things for you.
Define your usage scenario and let that guide your decisions. Unless you are going to be doing interesting things for your network, you can probably just grab X,Y,Z cheapest one. (I have 2 Dlink 'green' 8 Ports, that work fine at home as I am not doing fancy things other than Jumbo frames, between two raid boxes/mediapc, most of the time it's just transport for wireless clients) Generally speaking brandnames have very little to do with purchasing decisions as they all have crap and not so crap product ranges. (The same goes for hard drives). On 19 May 2010 13:31, helim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a 24-port gigabit switch. Anyone out there can share some > experience on reliability and price range? How about 3Com 3CR17333-91 > 24-ports 10/100 with 2 gigabit ports which cost slightly below S$500? Is all > 24-port gagabit switch which is more expensive probably around S$1,000 a > much better option? How about Prolink and Cisco gigabit switches? Prolink is > much cheaper buy Cisco more expensive. > > Thanks. > H E Lim > > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] >
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