First, some of the words you use are (probably) incorrect, and will lead to miscommunication. Eg, "internet cloud" I think you just mean "internet". "Cloud" indicates something else, and this could be significant.
Second, your budget of $100 is nowhere near enough to even cover the options you mention. You are presenting an impossible problem. $100 will NOT buy a 48-port switch, of any brand. Perhaps you meant $1,000 (one thousand). Now, since I've been curmudgeonly first, I will proceed to be more positively helpful. You can put in a switch with 4 ports, and a patch panel, to accomplish your 48-port requirement for under $100. The patch panel is a simple connection device, having one input jack, and however many output jacks for all your computers. A patch panel is a hard-wired solution. A wifi router or switch will do the same thing, but it will use wifi speeds, which are much much slower than wired solutions. You can buy a patch panel, or build one from RJ-45 receptacles. For that matter, you can chain routers and switches to reach your LAN clients. Whatever hardware solution you come up with, you are going to be the point person for figuring out how to make it "just work". If that is really beyond your capacity, hire a consultant. Good luck. On Dec 18, 12:01 pm, linux konqueror in progress <[email protected]> wrote: > Our company have hub(netgear ds524) with 24 ports populated by 2 > servers and 3 printers and rest is clients. > The fans are going out so while l'm replacing the fans I need backup/ > upgrade solution. > Preferring a switch with 48 ports. > More ports to have some space and switch to improve traffic on the > network vs hub. > Budged 100$ ( 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
