SMC 8 port Switch $30 after MIR at MC exp 1/27/02

[Tokar]

Running since the beginning of this month, microcenter has this SMC 8 port 10/100 switch...
$50 before reabtes, $30 after....

Tried it...works great...

Rebate expires 1/27/02

 

[ojai00]

Linked. This is sooo sooo tempting...but I'll try to hold off on it. Nice post.

 

[Tokar]

its actually quite small

hold on...getting dimensions...


length: 7"
height: 1.125"
width: 3.375"

 

[cremefilled]

8-port switch at $29.00, no rebate involved

This is still a good deal, but many people don't like to trust rebates.

 

[krwell]

with these switches are they all the same or does certain brands have better switches?

 

[Mephistokur]

Certain brands have better switches.

 

[db]

Man, I wish this was a router

 

[kyle1745]

I picked one of these up last week, its a nice little switch for the money. I needed something for lan parties and a couple extra pc's.


Kyle

 

[anakin71]

Thanks for the hot deal Tokar. I was already looking to buy a switch. I was fixing to buy the Netgear 5-port switch from buy.com until I saw your post. Went down to the Microcenter here in Denver and they had plenty of them.

Funny thing, MC had the SMC 5-port switch priced exactly the same.

Btw, TECHNICALLY speaking, MC's price breaks down this way:

$69.99 - $20 (instant rebate) - $20 MIR = $29.99.


Edit:

Hmm. microcenterorder.com says it's a mfr rebate but I can't find it on SMC's website. Anyone have a link to it? MC didn't have a rebate slip at the store. Will I have to go back and complain to get this deal?

 

[krwell]

Forgive my ignorance I'm not that knowledgable with switches. Whats better Linksys EZXS55W 5-Port 10/100 switch - full duplex or the SMC one? I can get the Linksys one for $38 from a friend. LMK please

 

[GnatGoSplat]

For those that bought this, is it the same as the picture?
My SMC7004AWBR resembles the switch in the photo, so if they're indeed the same design, I'd like to buy one as they should be stackable.

 

[anakin71]

I flipped through the manual on it and it is clearly stackable. There's a very specific diagram in the manual that describes how to stack the switches. I don't have it here in front of me, but I think the model # is EZ6508-TX, or something like that.

Anyone with a rebate link? Did anyone get the rebate slip from MC?

 

[coolred]

So how good is this switch. I am planning on taking my MCSE with some at home courses, and I am looking for something to network my couple of computers together.

 

[winter]

<< So how good is this switch. I am planning on taking my MCSE with some at home courses, and I am looking for something to network my couple of computers together. >>

Any switch will work for that application. Its very unlikely that anyone here will notice any difference in performance between any of the low-priced switches being talked about here - they all will perform fine.

 

[winter]

<< Forgive my ignorance I'm not that knowledgable with switches. Whats better Linksys EZXS55W 5-Port 10/100 switch - full duplex or the SMC one? I can get the Linksys one for $38 from a friend. LMK please >>

One has 5 ports, one has 8 - they both will run at the same speed so just buy the one that works for your application (e.g. how many ports do you need). I have two of the linksys 5 port switches and they work fine.

 

[dolph]

if i were to get this and a 1 port router, would i be able to share my dsl between 6 computers without much trouble?

 

[cremefilled]

dolph, yes, the "cable/dsl router" with the single port uses the TCP/IP address's port setting, which is a 16-bit number, to differentiate the computers connected to it. I don't think you could actually hook up 65,536 computers, but most instructions I have read show support for up to 254 computers. I think the latter number has something to do with the way the router leases out TCP/IP addresses internally.

To try to make that a little more clear, the router communicates with the outside world using a single TCP/IP address. It appends a port number to each packet; each port number correlates with a single TCP/IP address on the internal network, and the router assigns those to each client, acting as a DHCP server. An internal TCP/IP address is probably a duplicate of a "real" TCP/IP address on the Internet, but the two never conflict, because it is that conduit of the single TCP/IP address that is leased to your router (by your cable/dsl company, also using a DHCP server) that is the "true" address.

 

[krwell]

out of stock

 

[anakin71]

Apologize for reviving a probably dead thread by now, but just wanted to say that I stopped in my local MC and got the rebate form. It's basically just a 8x11 piece of paper. It even looks like they ran it through their copy machine to produce them.