Simon James wrote:
Does anyone have any strong views on which unmanaged 24 port gigabit
switches are good? Any insights into performance and reliability would be
appreciated.
Simon,
I've not used a 24-port gigabit unmanaged switch, however, we have, and
so has a medical centre I've recommended it to, a 16-port Linksys SR2016
that we paid $400 for about 5 months ago. It just works.
We have it on cat 5, and a couple of practices who've had to re-wire and
used cat 6 seem to get a bit better throughout off their switches. We
are still getting about 44 megabytes a second off our server, which has
an Intel server board with an onboard gigabit NIC, to one of our HP D330
desktops, also with an onboard gigabit NIC.
The practice I have in mind has similar hardware on a cat 6 LAN and gets
about 55 megabytes a second. MD2 works like you're on the server at the
desktops, as the network speed is comparable to the hard drive speed on
the server. They've had their gigabit switch, an 8-port D-Link, since
January 2005.
For us the speed of saving our newsletter, a humungous Publisher file,
during editing was the main reason. But it does make everything nice and
crisp.
Greg
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Greg Twyford
Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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