5 port D-Link Gigabit Switch

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Armitage

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Originally posted by: wkinney
hope you know those NICS arent linksys, they are "linkskey"
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Well fvck me :|
Shoulda known that was to good to be true. You know they chose that name for just that reason.

edit - just called newegg and dropped the Linkey cards for some D-Link ones
 
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Armitage

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Originally posted by: Xyclone
Is this switch a good one for the price?
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One of the Newegg reviews says it doesn't do jumbo frames, but otherwise positive. But for $25 it looks pretty good.
 
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Originally posted by: Armitage
Originally posted by: Xyclone
Is this switch a good one for the price?
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One of the Newegg reviews says it doesn't do jumbo frames, but otherwise positive. But for $25 it looks pretty good.
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Do you think I should wait for jumbo frames, or should I jump on this deal?
 
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dwkennedy

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Jumbo frames are not really that critical. Especially for $25!

To see any benefit from jumbo frames, you have to have support from end-to-end on your network, all the network adapters and switches along the path between stations must support it. Otherwise you'll have fragmentation, which is worse than running "regular" size frames. most WAN links won't support jumbo frames so your Internet traffic won't benefit. Also, better have a very low packet loss rate, since jumbo frames imply jumbo retransmissions when you drop a packet. While copying files on my LAN, without the benefit of jumbo frames, I run out of sustained hard drive bandwith before I can saturate a gigabit link.

If you look around, you can find the DGS-1008D (the 8 port version of this switch) for $50 shipped, minus $10 rebate. I got mine from ProVantage this week.

$25 for 5 ports = $5 per port. $40 for 8 ports = $5 per port. Future-proof your network and get the 8 port switch :)

 
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dwkennedy

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Oh, and let me point out one more thing about switches in general: d-link has FREE advanced replacement, if you blow a port, you can get a replacement shipped to you at no cost, swap it, and send the broken one back.

With netgear, advanced replacement costs $15-$25 a pop, otherwise you might wait upwards of three weeks waiting for your replacement gear.

I have also had to deal with netgear, smc, and d-link tech support a lot over the last few weeks. Let me share my observations:

Netgear, d-link, and SMC tech support are all equally clueless, IMHO (no recent linksys tech support experience, can't comment on them.) However, Netgear makes you crawl through many layers and even a couple of call-backs to get an RMA. SMC is almost as bad. I find that if you ask nicely, D-link will RMA your stuff without much hassle. So I vote for D-link!

Doug out!
 
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Even if you're looking for an increase in speed with gigabit "snapiness" is higher because the much lower bit-time. The question is, how much of a performance difference does it make with jumbo frames? A standard ethernet frame can carry a 1500 byte payload. So this is the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit). "Jumbo frames" often mean 9000 bytes for Gigabit. That's a lot of overhead cut out. I would say in any decent network there won't be very many drop offs if good quality cables and connectors are used. Seems like a big performance difference.
 
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Pretty decent, this should be cheaper at Buy.com, if you have a coupon (should be a $5 off floating around). $47 - $5 coupon - $20 MIR = $22 Shipped. NewEgg is $28 shipped.
 
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