I would just warn you away from the NetGear GS108. I only had one, but it locked up repeatedly. (sitting in a phone closet) Comments on NewEgg claimed that model had the bad capacitor problem (I just had 2 Dell motherboards replaced for that) - but I haven't opened up the switch to look at it.
Otherwise I would say my sample size is too small to make any predictions. I am using some Dell PowerConnect 2708 gigabit switches (about $80 on their small biz site) that have been fine. One of those is in a metal box 130' up a grain leg and has survived the winter so far ( knock on wood -10 F min to date). They have a web interface so you could ping monitor them. Oh, HP ProCurve 4000M switches are neither small nor unmanaged. I've had uptimes of ~2 years on those. About $125 used on EBay. On February 15, at 3:14 PM February 15, Joe Fiero wrote: > > I concur, the 5 port Netgear is a workhorse. We use them > exclusively at all > our AP's, hops and customer locations. > > Joe > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wireless- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:07 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Small unmanaged switches > > On Fri, February 15, 2008 11:56 am, Patrick Shoemaker wrote: >> I'm looking to purchase some small unmanaged switches (5 ports) > > [ snip ] > > You may want the Netgear ProSafe FS105. > > http://www.netgear.com/Products/Switches/DesktopSwitches/FS105.aspx > > The current crop are basically as small as physically possible (or at > least are the smallest five-port switches I've seen), and the metal > case > just looks and feels sturdy, as compared to the cheap plastic ones. > (Here, > things get a little tricky, as Netgear uses the same model number on a > couple different switches; I don't have any experience with the > silver-plastic FS105 switches. They're probably the same, > internally, but > I've also never ripped one open to see.) > > Netgear FS105s and the big brother FS108s run about 3/4 of our > towers, and > have for several years. I can't recall a single instance of a > problem with > a switch that was found to be a defect in the switch itself. Lightning > making a switch go foom, sure, but that's not the switch's fault. :) > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ---- > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
