On 07/13/2017 05:32 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
On 13/07/17 05:17 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
On 13/07/17 05:09 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 07/13/2017 05:03 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
From my own experience, this is not the case. I'v been using TP-Link
gear for over a decade, in personal and professional settings (having
worked at an ISP). I find TP-Link to be of good quality. Some of my
personal units I've had in service for 5 years.
I have a TP-Link TL-WA901ND access point. While it generally works
well, it has one bug. It supports mulitple SSIDs and VLANs. However,
the native LAN leaks into the VLAN, so that anything connected to the
2nd SSID gets the wrong DHCP etc. info.
I also have a TL-SG105E managed switch that generally does what it's
supposed to, but also has some bugs.
So, I'd put them at the lower end of the quality spectrum.
Ah, this is a fair point, where I have to clarify myself.
I was speaking mostly to the quality of their hardware. Which is
above average for similarly priced products.
Yes, their software has bugs, and their about where I expect them to
be in coverage for their target market.
Cisco has equally numerous number of bugs, but their more obscure in
odd edge cases because their users push that it harder, and pay to be
able to push extremes.
On Cisco. In 20 years of running an ISP and working with various largish
Cisco customers.
The only time I have seen a bad port on a switch(baring a lightning
strike) is with Cisco and one client had close to 100 bad ports over a
couple of thousand ports.
On the subject of decent hardware, ruined by bad software....
DO NOT BUY ZyXEL!
You may have fond memorys from the 80s, well their software hasn't
changed since then!
I recently bought this, and I was the sucker.
[snip]
Has anybody seen a reasonably in-expensive switch that can have the
firmware replaced with an openflow enabled linux?
I keep hoping to see someone do an openwrt like thing on D-Link,
Netgear, or other cheap reliable switch.
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