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?
The one I use is WordPress-specific, but this little snippet of JavaScript should do the trick on Blogger.
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.
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…
I’ll give it a shot, thanks.
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…
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.