A switch is a switch. Move your clients to switches and pull the failing hub for repair or complete replacement.
I wouldn't use a hub with more than 3 clients attached as there are too many traffic control problems (collisions and retransmits). Hubs are great if you need two or three clients in a workgroup, but your speed is greatly reduced on a hub.. On Dec 18, 12:01 pm, linux konqueror in progress <[email protected]> wrote: > Our company have hub(netgear ds524) with 24 ports populated by 2 > servers and 3 printers and rest is clients. > The fans are going out so while l'm replacing the fans I need backup/ > upgrade solution. > Preferring a switch with 48 ports. > More ports to have some space and switch to improve traffic on the > network vs hub. > Budged 100$ ( not whole lot but it will do) > > One Linux server and one Unix server get the most traffic from > clients. > Unix get lot of local connections and linux both local and wan > connections from local backups and web page requests. > about 20 Windows based client are connecting+wan clients. > > I have no hands-on experience witch switches of mentioned size. > looking in something like this: > 3COM 3C17302-US SuperStack > or > this:http://cgi.ebay.com/3COM-3CR17501-91-48-Port-10-100-Ethernet-Switch_W... > > There is lot of Cisco switches available.Wonder what it takes to > configure them for just basic network switching. > > Current set up is simple: > internet cloud>router>hub>{servers,printers,clients} > > Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
