Time to go gigabit.
My crappy little Linksys 100-Mbit switch has developed the charming habit of periodically dropping the whole LAN into 10-Mbit, half-duplex mode. A quick power-cycle brings it back to 100-Mbit, full-duplex, but I think its days are numbered.
Most of the house is already set up with Cat-5e so all I really need to go gigabit is a new switch. Any recommendations for a high-quality but affordable 8-port switch?
No idea about a switch, but would that rotating quote widget work on Blogger?
Comment by Rustmeister — July 11, 2008 @ 7:52 pm
The one I use is WordPress-specific, but this little snippet of JavaScript should do the trick on Blogger.
Comment by TD — July 11, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
Will Gigabit give you any performance boost over 100m? I remember back in the day that a lot of then-current PC hardware couldn’t saturate a 10m switched link. It seems that network has increased faster than PC.
Comment by Sevesteen — July 12, 2008 @ 12:39 am
I won’t see any immediate gains since a few of my systems don’t even have gigabit NICs yet, but if I have to buy a new switch I might as well spend the extra bucks for future-proofing.
BTW, I’ve wanted to comment several times on your blog but you don’t allow comments from people without Google accounts…
Comment by TD — July 12, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
I’ll give it a shot, thanks.
Comment by Rustmeister — July 12, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
We’ve been using little Netgear switches, here at work.
They work pretty well for what we’re doing with them, extending the number of ports in places that only have 1 or 2 ports per room…
CDW has the Netgear GS-108 for $84. Not particularly cheap, but CDW isn’t the cheapest place to buy stuff…
Comment by freddyboomboom — July 15, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
I’ve opened my blog comments to people without Google accounts for now–I’ll leave it that way unless spammers abuse it.
I wasn’t talking about a mixed network. Back in the day (transition from 10 to 100m) real-world workstation hard drive speeds were not significantly faster than network speed.
Comment by Sevesteen — July 19, 2008 @ 9:13 am