Looking for a rackmountable switch for a house. 24+ ports. Suggestions?

[alfa147x]

fiber vs gigabit ethernet is no different other than the distance limitations which usually don't exist in most homes. Also fiber is a lot more fragile than ethernet...sure it can take a beating for non-glass / LED type....but ethernet wins in this arena.

If you are talking 10G, then that is like asking for a car that can do 0-60 in 3 secs, turn 30mpg and cost less than $10k. If you are trying to aggregate 20G, then you are asking for the above and them paying you $20k to take it off their hands

I will say unless you are running something like a nice synology box, you switch is not going to be the bottleneck.

keep in mind that low cost switches (and even some very high cost ones) cannot do 100% of their port capacity. Also a lot of the companies that sell 4/8/12/24/48 port switches often have the same backplane shared across the board which is a big reason why there is not a jump much in price.

www.smallnetbuilder.com is a great resource.

How much performance do your VM's really need?

10G would be pretty awesome. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.
Our VM's don't really need that much performance but they are running on some sort of RAID bassed off of SSds

 

[alfa147x]

www.smallnetbuilder.com is a great resource.

Thanks for that link. It's been a lot of help.
Ended up buying these for $125 shipped:
Cisco SRW2024
Netgear GS724T

 

[alkemyst]

that's a really good deal.

 

[alfa147x]

Yeah! I'm really excited. I was hoping to find a cheap HP Procurve but none of them were in my budget.

 

[alfa147x]

Just got everything hooked and moved to my laundry room where all the drops are for the apt.

Before:

After:

Does anything look wrong? I'm renting so I'm trying to make as little change to their wiring as possible.

 

[kornphlake]

Are you using that 66 block for Ethernet?

 

[alfa147x]

Are you using that 66 block for Ethernet?

I didn't install it. I'm renting so it's what ever the apartment complex folks installed. From what I can tell it's not being used for Data but for just phone. The one cable that brings in "internet" might be hooked to it. I don't remember.

The internet cable only uses two pairs. I'm guessing it's 100BASE-TX. My cable tester was able to verify the 2 other cables out of that box.

 

[Lifted]

Are you able to get Gb links out of that 66 block?

 

[alfa147x]

Are you able to get Gb links out of that 66 block?

Just checked. No data cables are going through the 66 block. It's just used for phone.

 

[alfa147x]

Question: I have a 8 port switch in the living room running:
Mac Mini
Receiver
Xbox 360
Future Blu-Ray Player

Is the 2nd switch going to cause problems?

 

[sdifox]

Question: I have a 8 port switch in the living room running:
Mac Mini
Receiver
Xbox 360
Future Blu-Ray Player

Is the 2nd switch going to cause problems?

I am assuming at most two of those devices are active at the same time? Should be fine.

 

[alfa147x]

I am assuming at most two of those devices are active at the same time? Should be fine.

Sounds good. I was running into issues when trying to remote into the Mini this morning and thought that might have been the issue.

The issue was that I trunked 2 ports between the router and switch. For some odd reason they didn't like it. No real reason to do that so I left it at one.