Bleh. In the late 90's they were, not to put too fine a point on it, crap.
They were easily locked up with a simple ping flood, management was poor too. I've never liked the 3Com stuff. HP rocks, though, and is way cheaper than Cisco. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not too long ago (well, early 90's) they were one of the best choices for > switches, especially if you didn't want to go to the extreme cost of the > Ciscos and Nortels out there. They had the best network cards as well. It's > amazing that our 3Com SuperStack 3300's still work well today. > > Then, sometime in the late 90's/early 2000's, they went to pot. The products > were expensive, support was limited, and problems cropped up. > > I have no idea how their current product line is now. Supposedly, they've > improved. > > There needs to be a place that performs testing on switches. Is there a > magazine that regularly does switch speed testing and long term reliability > reports on network equipment? Network World seems to focus on the higher-end > of the scale, anybody know of someplace that reports on the Edge networks? > > --Matt Ross > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: > NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: > Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:19:29 -0800 > Subject: Re: edge switch (to the desktops) > > >> 3com? In the Top 3? Doubtful... I rank them slightly above DLink, >> Linksys, etc... >> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > a) Avoid dlink/netgear/linksys like the plague. If it's cheap, it's >> > cheap for a reason. The top 3 switch vendors are Cisco HP and 3com for a >> > reason, I would stick with one of them. >> > >> > b) Chassis vs stack: it depends on the port density, traffic patterns, >> > and connectivity to the network core. >> > >> > If *I* were to stack a series of gigabit switches, I would use something >> > that has dedicated high-speed stacking ports using 10G-E or faster, like >> > a Cisco 3750G, or ProCurve 2900-48G. The 3com 4500G you mentioned is >> > vaguely comparable. >> > >> > Jake Gardner wrote: >> > > Also, I forgot to ask what are people's thoughts on using a chassis >> > > setup versus a stack? >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Phil Brutsche >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
