Truthfully, I think that what you are asking for does not exist. Small switches are designed to be cheap, not reliable. Thats jsut the reality of the business.
However, with that said, we have had excellent luck with the "Intellinet" brand. ICIntracom makes/sells them. Very few lockups or failed units. We also are using their SOHOrouters for our resi customers instead of Linksys most of the time now. They have both a plastic and metal ones. They are very inexpensive. Don't hold me to this, but I think they also pass VLAN size packets (1504MTU), even though they are dumb switches. Our plan has been, put in the $139 Digital Logger with autoping and extra Surge protection, plug into switch, that the radio and ATA and router also plugged into. If you can't afford to have the switch lockup, steps have to be taken in advance to make certain of that. Linksys does have a very low cost Managed VLAN Switch (reduced port model 8?), for under $120, which we were very seriously considering for customer premise. There is a big benefit to having a switch that has a pingable IP, for troubleshooting and Demarcation reasons. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:56 PM Subject: [WISPA] Small unmanaged switches > I'm looking to purchase some small unmanaged switches (5 ports) to use > at business customer locations to connect a Canopy CPE, a VoIP ATA, and > the Netopia router we use for customer installs. I want something as > simple as possible that is ROCK SOLID. No power cycling, no "oops the > switch locked up", no nonsense. It must be unmanaged and require no > configuration (no MikroTik). And did I mention it must be reliable? Low > power consumption is a plus so that the UPS powering the CPE, the > switch, and the ATA lasts as long as possible. > > I'm currently looking at the Linksys SD205- does anyone have real-world > experience with these? > > Thanks, > > -- > Patrick Shoemaker > President, Vector Data Systems LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > office: (301) 358-1690 x36 > mobile: (410) 991-5791 > http://www.vectordatasystems.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
