Hello Henri,
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> Have you really had problems with tree's of switches?
Yes, indeed I have ran into problems with this in the past in a mixed
platform environment, solved by putting them all on the same fabric
(switch). It should not happen but does.
>
> I have a 4-port wireless router, and plug 2 5-port switches and an
> 8-port hub into it.
>
> I've never had any problems due to this approach and it is more useful
> than just having a single 16-port switch in that I can have the
> machines further apart from each other.
> The only advantage your approach would give me is that I could run a
> dedicated computer as a router and have more functionality there,
> which is on the todo list. Even then, I'd still use 5-port switches
> and not one big 16-port.
>
Planning for the future expanding capabilities seems to work out
cheaper.
Jerry
> Hen
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> If you are running only one computer and a USB printer then I would
>> agree. But if you are running a couple of wired (ethernet) machines
>> along with several network printers along with some wireless
>> computers off of a base station that is connected to the LAN then the
>> separate switch approach makes more sense because you have a lot more
>> ports to plug things into. If you shop around the prices of switches
>> (Asante) are quite inexpensive.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Jerry Yeager suggested:
>>>> I might suggest that your friend do the following:
>>>> Instead of getting a four port router, get a one port router and
>>>> then a gizmo called called a multi-port switch. It will be hooked
>>>> up like this:
>>>> internet <<++>> (cable/dsl) modem <==> router <==> switch <----
>>>> computer one
>>>>
>>>> <---- computer two
>>>>
>>>> <---- printer one
>>>>
>>>> <---- printer two
>>>>
>>>> <---- other stuff if you want it.
>>>>
>>>> <---- more other stuff
>>>> (a four port router that you see being listed is really a one port
>>>> router with a four port switch connected to it, all in one box).
>>> Jerry,
>>> It seems to me that for the vast majority of people this just makes
>>> it more complicated and expensive without gaining much. Most
>>> cable/DSL routers I've seen recently have four-port 10/100 switches
>>> built in. Printing, surfing, e-mail and normal file sharing gain
>>> nothing from going gigabit locally. You always poke a gigabit switch
>>> into one port of the router, in the unlikely event that you feel the
>>> need for more speed later on, to, say, move video between machines.
>>> L^2
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