Speaking of enterprise grade switches. Do enterprise grade access points also exhibit such dramatic improvements?
-----Original Message----- From: DSinc <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:57:01 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes! Ryan, You just shared a magic thingy! VOiP!!! I do not do this. Did not do it when I made my 'switch upgrade' decision. This may be a very good reason for our different choices. Certainly I am more LAN feature-less that most on our List. Fine. Best, Duncan Ryan Vorachek wrote: > As far as I know there is nothing wrong with the Dell switches. I've > never used one, but they do look feature rich. Possibly more feature > rich than any home network needs, but that's not a bad thing. :) We > ended up with Procurves as they were tested to work with out new VoIP > phone system and the Dells were... Cisco was, but the sticker shock was > too great on those for the owners (and me). I really do like PoE, don't > use it for too much yet except the phones and a wireless access point, > but it is really neat. > > Yeah my old SMCs do jumb-frames.... still have yet to test that too. I > used to run a pair of netgear 316 or something like that (3xx series > 10/100 switches anyway) and liked them. The SMCs are basically a faster > version of those... i.e. a typical unmanaged switch. I would at times > very much like a managed switch at home, but never have pulled the > trigger on one. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes! > > Ryan, > Can not say that Procurve switches were not mentioned when I converted > from 10/100 switches to 10/100/1000 switches some time back. I chose to > go with a pair of Dell PowerConnect 2716's. The home LAN has never been > as nice as it is now. And, I still have not started to play with > "jumbo-frames." > Next time, maybe the Procurve's.......... :) > Best, > Duncan > > > Ryan Vorachek wrote: >> I'll second that. We switched to Procurve switches a couple years ago >> from 3com stuff. The HP switches are fast and built like tanks. That >> said we did loose one during a firmware update. Flashed the ROM and >> waited for it to come back up.... and waited... and waited... > called >> HP support. I remember the guy stating that this is very unusual and >> the first time he's seen this. The good news is HP shipped out one > next >> day air so all was happy quickly. (apart from the creative wire >> rerouting that I had to do while the switch was down.) >> >> I would love Procurves at home, but my rather old SMC gigabit switches >> are working well enough to not justify the upgrade cost. :) >> >> Ryan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julian Zottl >> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:28 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes! >> >> Procurve's are great switches. For any Enterprise customers out > there, >> I >> highly recommend them. They have served me well at a couple of >> companies! >> ---- >> Julian >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just wanted to share my experiences regarding my foray into switches. >>> Initially I used the switch that came with the router. However, > since >>> getting my Windows Home Server, I now regularly transfer several >> hundred >>> gigabytes at a time. As you would imagine 10/100 just did not cut it >>> for me. I looked around and settled on a nice 3Com gigabit switch >>> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1ZA0G/ref=ox_ya_oh_product) > and >>> it served me quite well for almost 1 year. As my devices grew and my >>> server balooned to 8 TB of storage, I was abusing the little switch > to >>> oblivion. >>> >>> After doing a bit of searching around, I settled on >>> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I7SWLO/ref=ox_ya_oh_product) > and >>> all I can say is that I am one happy camper! I know this seems odd, >> but >>> the performance change was quite noticeable. Before, I would feel > the >>> 3Com switch struggling during multi computer transfers (i.e copying >>> 100GB from computer A -> B and simultaneously from C -> D). But now, >> I >>> feel that doing the same exercise on the ProCurve is much faster. >>> >>> Also, having a metal case and a web UI also helps. >>> >>> All-in-all, I am one happy camper! >>> >>> Highly recommended for anyone out there! >>> >
