So I ask a friend in the network team if they have an old junker switch laying around

[Doppel]

sandeagle, were you not loved as a child?

 

[rudeguy]

It's long out of warranty and the fiber ports are toast. They don't really want flaky equipment sitting in a production environment. There's quite a few people I know of with old full sized equipment racks that were tore of old datacenters and now in basements. They just don't reuse/resell them.

my company had to stop due to EPA regs. We used to get free desktops and monitors after work upgraded. Now they have to pay a company to take them instead of giving them away.

Bitches

 

[vi edit]

my company had to stop due to EPA regs. We used to get free desktops and monitors after work upgraded. Now they have to pay a company to take them instead of giving them away.

Bitches

Fundamentally I understand the reason. They don't want thousands of old desktops and monitors going to a home user, being used for a year and then pitched in a landfill like a huge number of them likely end up being sent to (yes I know it's illegal).

But I can't help but think that there's a money factor here like so many other regulations where some senator had a big hand in a recycling firm and was making bank on the deal.

 

[Krazy4Real]

LOL! Talk about overkill for a home network. I'd rather spend a little money and get an unmanaged switch with less power consumption.

 

[preslove]

Quote:
Power Device
Features (F): Redundant Power System (RPS) connector
Form Factor: Internal
Frequency Required: 50/60 Hz
Nominal Voltage: AC 120/230 V
Power Consumption Operational: 71 Watt
ugh, i'd use it until i could string up a junk wrt54g or something.

srsly. Long term, it might cost less to get a decent switch.

 

[vi edit]

Eh. After about 4 years I'd break even with one of the "Green" port switches.

 

[CraigRT]

I got given 3 of those, maybe not the exact same model but close.
Cannot get them to work at all. They make good bookshelf ends.

 

[preslove]

Eh. After about 4 years I'd break even with one of the "Green" port switches.

Srsly? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320090

 

[spidey07]

I got given 3 of those, maybe not the exact same model but close.
Cannot get them to work at all. They make good bookshelf ends.

Probably don't have software or corrupt flash. Easy to get them going.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps628/products_tech_note09186a0080169696.shtml

 

[vi edit]

Srsly? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320090

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817111031

Still uses around 20w to operate. It's about $3.5 dollars a month more to run the one I got for free over this one for $170. I want 16+ ports and rack mounted.

170/3.5 = 48 and change

 

[imagoon]

CDW posting MSRP yo.

I only paid about $200 more than that listed price for 48port 1gig with the -E package line and SmartNet.

Those are decent switches to mess with and would love to get my hands on a couple for my home lab (in the "I got them free" idea.)

 

[Wyndru]

I got given 3 of those, maybe not the exact same model but close.
Cannot get them to work at all. They make good bookshelf ends.

You may already know this, but under normal home network situations you have to make them dumb switches before you can use them (delete the vlan.dat file). I didn't realize this when I was trying to set one up at home and thought the same thing.

 

[spidey07]

You may already know this, but under normal home network situations you have to make them dumb switches before you can use them (delete the vlan.dat file). I didn't realize this when I was trying to set one up at home and thought the same thing.

You also have to enable spanning-tree portfast on the ports, turn off DTP and PaGP.

 

[SparkyJJO]

doesn't matter. there are ways to salvage old equipment. giving them to a friend is not one of them. can you investigate and find out what your company policy is on decommissioned equipment and salvaging? i am interested. thank you for your cooperation.

lol seriously? Why do you care or why should he "cooperate" with you? What are you, the cisco switch police?

Believe it or not, there are a lot of companies who don't have to follow any sort of "rules" for getting rid of old equipment. Sure, some do, but others don't. My work doesn't have to, though every few months I take a truck load to a recycling place (and costs nothing but my time/gas).

 

[BladeVenom]

48 ports, time for a big LAN game.

 

[imagoon]

lol seriously? Why do you care or why should he "cooperate" with you? What are you, the cisco switch police?

Believe it or not, there are a lot of companies who don't have to follow any sort of "rules" for getting rid of old equipment. Sure, some do, but others don't. My work doesn't have to, though every few months I take a truck load to a recycling place (and costs nothing but my time/gas).

Last I checked there were no real rules other than making sure you go it signed off (company rule) because they didn't want the EPA to call them if they found it all in a dump / found HDDs in the world with data.

IT could wipe a drive, sign of on the wipe, and give the machine away as long as the person accepting it signed that they took it. That way if the EPA did wander in we could say we gave that machine to Mary Jane Secretary and we destroyed all company data.

We got approval to give away all kinds of stuff so we didnt have to pay by the pound to throw it out.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bro, I'm jelly! That's a freaking nice switch! Too bad it's not gigabit though, but really for most things you don't really need gigabit, could always still have the gigabit switch for the stuff that does need gigabit. I've kinda been wanting to buy myself a rack mountable 24 port managed gigabit switch, but they're not exactly cheap. Right now I have a bunch of dlinks daisy chained lol

Some work places are laid back about giving away stuff. As long as a supervisor was involved all should be fine. Remove stickers that identify the company in any way. Most companies will make sure you do this before letting you take it.

Interestingly I've scored more stuff at my current job than when I worked in IT. When I was in IT they had trouble giving away a broken TV, let alone something that still works. Recently scored a server rack, cisco switch and filing cabinet. They were going to get it recycled so they just let people take what they want before they do. There's another server rack that's even nicer but it's too tall for my basement. It looks like it might be a 50+ U.

 

[sdifox]

I like the 3750s. Great for test lab.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I hope I can get work to let me get the old Cisco gear when we decom it. At least some of it. Need to build out my home lab

Grats on the loots

 

[bfdd]

i'm totally jelly right now