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

alfa147x

alfa147x

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Looking for a rackmountable switch for a house. 24+ ports. Any suggestions?

Items on the network:
4x Desktops
2x Laptops (occasional use of gigabit)
4x - 6x tv accessories
4x NAS
Router: WNR3500L

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.
We're moving into this house near august. So just researching. What are things I need look at when buying a switch?

My current apartment I have my router then a switch near the tv and a switch in the bedroom. I was told that's not the best idea.

Would a $150 budget be sufficient?

Thanks,
Alfa
 
If you just want a good solid L2 switch I would suggest an HP 1410-24G if you want gigabit. It's just under twice your budget, but you get 24 gigabit ports.

If you want to stay in your budget you could opt for the non gigabit version, the HP 1410-24 or 1410-24-2G(has 2 gigabit ports), also very solid switches.
 
Crusty said:
If you just want a good solid L2 switch I would suggest an HP 1410-24G if you want gigabit. It's just under twice your budget, but you get 24 gigabit ports.

If you want to stay in your budget you could opt for the non gigabit version, the HP 1410-24 or 1410-24-2G(has 2 gigabit ports), also very solid switches.
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T
Thanks!
Why would I not want to go with one of these:
Rosewill RGS-1024
NETGEAR PROSAFE PLUS JGS524E-100NAS
Cisco SR2016T-NA

I'm new to all of this so that might be a stupid question. I'm trying to figure out what I need to look for.

Thanks again.
Alfa
 
alfa147x said:
T
Thanks!
Why would I not want to go with one of these:
Rosewill RGS-1024
NETGEAR PROSAFE PLUS JGS524E-100NAS
Cisco SR2016T-NA

I'm new to all of this so that might be a stupid question. I'm trying to figure out what I need to look for.

Thanks again.
Alfa
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it has to do with traffic management. What exactly are you going to do? I suspect you can get away with an unmanaged switch.
 
sdifox said:
it has to do with traffic management. What exactly are you going to do? I suspect you can get away with an unmanaged switch.
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Get these devices to the internet also move files / access files between:
4x Desktops
2x Laptops (occasional use of gigabit)
4x - 6x tv accessories
4x NAS
 
alfa147x said:
Get these devices to the internet also move files / access files between:
4x Desktops
2x Laptops (occasional use of gigabit)
4x - 6x tv accessories
4x NAS
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really has to do with how many things will be sending data at the same time.
 
I personally use this in my house. Never had a second of problems with it, with a setup simiar to yours. You don't need a managed switch to just give internet access and file sharing.
 
I have a similar model to this 24-port Zonet Gigabit switch, which goes for about $150. I only paid $50 for mine though at Future Shop, on clearance. Mine's rackmountable but I just hang it off the wall vertically on brackets.

Mine had a fan, but I just unplugged it and it's been running fine 24/7 for the last year. I don't have a lot of traffic on it though since it's just for my house. Unmanaged of course.
 
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Keep in mind if you are planning on even halfway saturating a switch, the 'cheapie' ones do not scale well.

$150 is really low for this kind of item.
 
Honestly the peak data though put will be sporadic. Most of it will be Internet usage. At most one or two computers running stuff off the NAS while a 1080p movie it being pushed to the tv
 
I used a refurbished Dell Powerconnect 2724 in the same situation that your in and it's been bullet proof. I've got 23 drops plus an Asus Rtu N16 all running through this switch.
 
IMO you'd be wasting money on a new managed switch for a home network.

This is the first hit on ebay for 24 port gigabit switch.
DELL POWERCONNECT 2624 $35

If you offer to buy all of them they'll probably give you 1 or 2 for free. That would still come to less than half of a new managed switch such as the HP above.
 
Wow. Thanks for the link. Those are super cheap. Might order one for my parent's place. The reason I wanted that managed switch is so we can use link aggregation. Any recommendations?

I noticed the last used 24 port HP V1810 sold for $180 ish or $250 new.
 
It's worth taking a look on eBay. I picked up a 3 month old netgear GS724T v3 for about $40.

This is a great switch. Easy to use, and the basic management features have been quite handy for fault finding. E.g. I was able to use wireshark to find an intermittent problem with my media streamer and NAS by using the management features to redirect traffic between those devices to my PC.

It's also got fiber ports, should you feel the need to run LAN outside - or if you just want to play (optical transceivers can be had for $.99)
 
sdifox said:
humm, 200 dollar managed 24x gigabit

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833181173
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This. Not familiar with the zyxel stuff, but its basically a "smart" switch, in that you can do port based vlan tags. AKA - have a separate LAN for certain things. People most commonly do this to place voice traffic on its own ports or to segregate departments that don't need to talk to each other. If I was going to spend on a 24port gbit switch, this, or the smc/lgericsson would be what I would buy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833129249

BTW - you don't need VLANS just to do what you want, so an unmanaged gbit switch will suffice:

This is the least expensive 24 port - all ports gbit - switch I can find

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704024
 
Just throwing an idea out there, but instead of buying one large switch why not buy a nice switch with fewer ports and put additional switches at each point of interest? For example, just run one line to the TV and put an 8-port switch with your tv gear. I'm guessing that your likely only going to be realistically using one or two devices at a time so bandwidth "shouldn't be an issue"? For your NAS setup I can see running individual lines, but I think you could easily get away with one primary line per room with a local switch. Unless your doing concurrent HD streaming in addition to transferrring large files, I just can't see saturation problems. Just an idea.
 
I've thought about doing that. But from what I've seen with the used hp switches is that a managed 24 port isn't too much more than an 8. Plus 8 ports with 2 -3 computers running LACP down to at least 4 ports then more switches + NAS's.

It seems like we'll be doing more work from home so heavy data transfer while our SO's are watching hd movies off of another computer or NAS. That would be the max amount of traffic.

I'll look in 12 port switches that would work. Then I could pick up one of those cheap switches linked to above.

Our vm's are currently running on an array of 4x 60gb ssd's. (test environments) that's why speed is important.

Man. I really wish fiber was cheaper.
 
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?
 
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