switch reccomendations

In article , Adie wrote: :Excuse me if this beyond the normal scope of this group.

:But I'm after a 24 port 100baseT managed switch with some form of traffic :prioritisation, a couple of 1gig ports, SNMP and VLAN.

:I don't usually buy this kind of stuff, I have a budget of £150 (240 ish :USD).

That's a pretty tight budget for a 24 port managed switch, especially with the gig ports.

:Is there a reccomended bit of kit that you guys would normally go for in :this sort of instance?

Perhaps you could buy a Baystack 470-24T off Ebay.

There are some very inexpensive 6 to 8 port gigabit unmanaged switches out there, but I doubt they would have vlans, snmp, or traffic prioritization, and 3 to 4 of them would still come out as more than 150 pounds (at least new.) I would not trust any important data to such switches without a thorough test with a packet generator.

How about Netgear? No good?

Too cheap to be true?

In article , Adie wrote: |>:Is there a reccomended bit of kit that you guys would normally go for in |>:this sort of instance?

|How about Netgear? No good?

|Too cheap to be true?

Generally speaking, I have seen a fair number of people expressing concerns about Netgear support. I have seen people express concerns about Netgear's return policy (check the details before buying!!).

But if you are such on a limited budget, then you can't be overly fussy about support, or about bit error rates.

In article , Adie wrote: |>:Is there a reccomended bit of kit that you guys would normally go for in |>:this sort of instance?

|How about Netgear? No good?

|Too cheap to be true?

Generally speaking, I have seen a fair number of people expressing concerns about Netgear support. I have seen people express concerns about Netgear's return policy (check the details before buying!!).

But if you are such on a limited budget, then you can't be overly fussy about support, or about bit error rates.

Mib browser won't do much good for a switch that does not run SNMP at all. Zippo. Nilch. Nada.

The FS526T does not speak snmp at all. You need an FSM726 for that. But that is out of your budget range.

BTW, many of these lower cost managed switches have been known to have issues with multicast traffic.

Yes, youre right.But I think it will do the job, I just need basic QoS for Voice and for an ERP app.

Regarding SNMP, I should be able to use a MIB browser... I hope.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

Oh.... Bummer!

I imagine it will have issues, hopefully I won't be the one to come accross them.