16 port switch recommendation?

[RearAdmiral]

Hello,

I am in the process of wiring up my 2 story(ugh) house with CAT6. I started looking at unmanaged 16 port switches and there appear to be a few reasonable options price wise. Particularly the ZyXEL GS1100-16 is ~$51 from newegg until 5/1. I imagine that almost any ol' switch will do given my requirements:

3 bedrooms + living room with 2-3 connections in each. I will be serving media once I build out some sort of HTPC and / or storage device. I will also be putting an AP in the other side of the house. Power conservation is important, so scraping up a powerconnect off the side of the road might be out of the picture.

I can not think of a reason why I would need a "better" switch or more feature rich switch, unless someone can bring more information to me.

Thanks!

 

[ch33zw1z]

For what you're doing, that switch will work ok. For $50, hard to go wrong.

I like to test the runs with iperf after the install is all done.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Meh maybe ill just get a powerconnect 2716, they don't use that much juice it seems.

 

[ch33zw1z]

They are about the same price on ebay. either will fit the bill imo. whatever ails ya

 

[azazel1024]

Probably be fine. I need things like link aggregation, which is why I can't live with an unmanaged switch.

You might be fine on ports. I thought a 16 port would be enough for me, but I ran out in my 3-bedroom house. Single drop for each bedroom, 2 in my family room, 1 in my kitchen, 1 in my garage, 2 for my server, 1 for my network printer, 1 for my MoCA bridge (for DVR), 1 for my router, 3 in my basement office, 2 in my basement proper.

4 are used by the uplink between two 16 port switches...because of the 17 ports required for my house. So I currently have 21 ports in use and down the road I forsee at least another 3-4 ports required (adding a master suite addition over my main garage in a couple of years, plus tearing down a shed and building detached single car garage).