Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-12 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Thanks Tom, I thought that I might have overlooked something, based on your earlier comment. Do not get me wrong, I am familiar with openWRT. In fact, I am using it right now when I travel - in one or those small and cheap GL-AR750S. Performance sucks (10-100Mbs PC to PC over 5GHz wifi max.),

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-12 Thread Tom
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:06:05 -0500 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Do you have recommendation for active SDN controller able to manage > multiple openWRT APs with channel control and client traffic hand off > between the APs? > > The rest of simple network can be managed statically with > Ansibe/Puppet. >

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread Tom
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 15:37:32 -0500 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > I am not using Edge OS on Ubiquity gear directly - orchestrating SDN > through Unifi services. > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 15:04 Tom wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:06:09 -0500 > > Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019,

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I am not using Edge OS on Ubiquity gear directly - orchestrating SDN through Unifi services. On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 15:04 Tom wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:06:09 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 13:37 tom wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:18:49 -0500 > > > Tomas

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Tom wrote: Yes really. OpenWRT is miles ahead of EdgeOS and always will be. Just because people install Linux distros on consumer laptops doesn't make Linux any less suited for big iron. EdgeOS has a linux kernel and associated tools. It uses uboot and I (as a non-computer

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread Tom
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:06:09 -0500 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 13:37 tom wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:18:49 -0500 > > Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > > > Now, Ubiquity has decided that their products will call home with > > > data from the internal networks, of course without

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 13:37 tom wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:18:49 -0500 > Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > Now, Ubiquity has decided that their products will call home with > > data from the internal networks, of course without opt in/out. And of > > course they think that it is great and they have

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-12-05 Thread tom
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:18:49 -0500 Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Now, Ubiquity has decided that their products will call home with > data from the internal networks, of course without opt in/out. And of > course they think that it is great and they have absolute right to > use someone else's network for

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, King Beowulf wrote: I currently have a combination of TP-Link, Netgear, D-Link 10/100/1000 switches scattered about to route data to various rooms, all bought on sale. I do tend to prefer metal encased versions, however, as they seem a bit more resilient to RF

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-24 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/23/19 8:27 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > While my old LinkSys (non-gigabit) switch worked for years it recently > died. > I'm now using a Netgear GS116 gigabit switch and I want a backup unmanaged > 16-port gigabit switch. > > I find them available from Cisco, Netgear, TrendNet, TP-Link, and

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: IMHO they’re all approx. the same. the hardware is typically low(ish) quality. They typically can’t sustain full bandwidth on all ports at the same time (eg. an 8 port 1g switch would not be capable of actually passing 8G of traffic through it at the

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Louis Kowolowski
IMHO they’re all approx. the same. the hardware is typically low(ish) quality. They typically can’t sustain full bandwidth on all ports at the same time (eg. an 8 port 1g switch would not be capable of actually passing 8G of traffic through it at the same time). Typically they don’t release

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: These things are commodity, so any of the manufacturers is probably about the same quality/durability. Tomas, That's good to know. What matters are price, features, management/configuration and design. Example: If you need vlans, you will need to

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Tomas Kuchta
These things are commodity, so any of the manufacturers is probably about the same quality/durability. I do not believe that anyone has invested a penny in 1Gb unmanaged switch products in over decade. So, they are essentially the same old products made by old fabs. What matters are price,

Re: [PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm now using a Netgear GS116 gigabit switch and I want a backup unmanaged That's a GS316, not GS116. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Unmanaged gigabit switches: does brand matter?

2019-11-23 Thread Rich Shepard
While my old LinkSys (non-gigabit) switch worked for years it recently died. I'm now using a Netgear GS116 gigabit switch and I want a backup unmanaged 16-port gigabit switch. I find them available from Cisco, Netgear, TrendNet, TP-Link, and D-Link. Where reviews are provided (Newegg and Amazon)