I'm moving into a house with a friend of mine, and we're going to pull some bundled media cable with coax/ethernet to each room. In the central location for the wiring we're going to put in a gigabit switch. I'm thinking about just getting a netgear 8 port gigabit switch for around $70, Probably this guy. Would anyone suggest a different gigabit switch for 8-12 ports???
Best GB switch for the money?
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I spend more time replacing netgear stuff than using it. I got the Dell Power Connect 2708 new off of eBay for $50.00 shipped. If you wish it even has the option of being a managed switch.
I've had lots of good experience with both the Dell Power Connect 2708 and the 2724 I've been using both at work for Ghosting images onto various machines -- no complaints at all. I'll be getting the 2724 for my home network next month. 
Jumbo frames are somewhat overrated IMO, but the 2708 doesn't support them.
Isn't the 2724 actively cooled? So couldn't it be noisy at home? Then a 2716 might be a better match midway.
But please tell me, what makes the Dells better than consumer Netgears for example in a home setting?
Here's a sample of my GS608's performance capability (with 9K jumbo frames). Not to be taken as any sort of real-world test, but as one demonstration of the switch's capability.
Additional commentary. The Netgear is better than a D-Link that I have on hand (DGS-1008D rev C3) -- which is fine for standard frames, but its performance decreases when jumbo frames are enabled, pretty much defeating the point of having jumbo frames.
Isn't the 2724 actively cooled? So couldn't it be noisy at home? Then a 2716 might be a better match midway.
But please tell me, what makes the Dells better than consumer Netgears for example in a home setting?
Here's a sample of my GS608's performance capability (with 9K jumbo frames). Not to be taken as any sort of real-world test, but as one demonstration of the switch's capability.
Additional commentary. The Netgear is better than a D-Link that I have on hand (DGS-1008D rev C3) -- which is fine for standard frames, but its performance decreases when jumbo frames are enabled, pretty much defeating the point of having jumbo frames.
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It issue with Jumbo Frames boils down to the topology.
If you configure a separate Giga network that does not connect to the Internet it better to shop a littler more and get Jumbo frames.
If the Giga goes together with your Internet activities, there is no point for the Jumbo since you are not going to configure a TCP/IP that goes to the Internet with 9000 MTU.
Peer to Peer Giga Networks
Setting a Home/SOHO Giga network.
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If you configure a separate Giga network that does not connect to the Internet it better to shop a littler more and get Jumbo frames.
If the Giga goes together with your Internet activities, there is no point for the Jumbo since you are not going to configure a TCP/IP that goes to the Internet with 9000 MTU.
Peer to Peer Giga Networks
Setting a Home/SOHO Giga network.
:sun:
I don't run separate networks or subnets here, and don't have any problems of note mixing and matching jumbo frames -- I guess path MTU detection is doing its job. The only "internet" problem I have is that I can't get to my (non-JF capable, GbE) router's web config page when JF are enabled, but there's a simple fix here -- click on the web page 3 more times, wait for timeouts, and then remember "oh yeah" (j/k) and disable JF on my NIC or change to a computer that doesn't support JFs.
The problems I have with JFs are more subtle -- spending time and energy in obtaining devices that actually support JFs at decent sizes, dealing with the occassional performance loss accompanying jumbo frames, and often finding after this effort that the returns are marginal.
Returns are significant when I'm dealing with PCI NICs at high bandwidth, or with high CPU utilization, thus it's worth the hassel in some cases.
But I think I have to agree in general that the potential minuses aren't worth the potential plusses in many cases, hence the comment about JFs being overrated.
The problems I have with JFs are more subtle -- spending time and energy in obtaining devices that actually support JFs at decent sizes, dealing with the occassional performance loss accompanying jumbo frames, and often finding after this effort that the returns are marginal.
Returns are significant when I'm dealing with PCI NICs at high bandwidth, or with high CPU utilization, thus it's worth the hassel in some cases.
But I think I have to agree in general that the potential minuses aren't worth the potential plusses in many cases, hence the comment about JFs being overrated.
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