Best Gigabit Switch

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Hey guys,

Simple question. Out of the switches OcUK stocks which would you say they best is for just a simple home LAN?
I have 3 gigabit compatible clients which I will be connecting along with a BT Home Hub 2 (which is only 100mb) so no need for lots of ports.
I'm just wanting to get transfer speeds down dramatically as I'm transferring data between them all just through the HH which takes yonks!

Any suggestion, recommendations are greatly appreciated :)
Also if there is a switch outside of OcUK's stock please suggest it too. (I'd rather buy OcUK though ;) )

Em
 
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Swapped out a flaky Netgear GS608 for a Procurve 1410-8G about 3 months ago. Best £50 I spent.
 
Thanks for all your replies guys, seems like the ProCurve has a lot of positive feedback!
But with regards to the TP-Link, as its cheaper and obviously not as good as high priced competitors what am I looking at in regards to worse credentials?
Will the TP-Links throughput be slightly lower than the HP? or a lot lower?

Thanks,
Em
 
I have installed the 5 port TP-Link(I have one also) on other peoples networks and not one problem.
 
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Will the TP-Links throughput be slightly lower than the HP? or a lot lower?

Thanks,
Em
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It shouldn't be any lower, what it will be though is more prone to breaking in creative and difficult to diagnose ways. Whether that bothers you is up to you but some of them will at some point in their lives start mangling packets somehow or other (and you may not notice, blame it on something else etc). £25 if you're prepared to deal with issues later, £50 is you want a unit which will still be working flawlessly in 5+ years*, you pay your money and take your choice.

* On average, a few procurves will break, but less.

Example, a long time in the past a previous employer was using netgear switches for CPE at customer sites, they were not cheap units in their own right (managed gigabit switches). For various reasons, some of them related to longevity, we swapped them for Cisco's at pretty high cost to us. The number of intermittent niggles and transient issues which disappeared after the swapout was shocking, stuff we were aware of but had never been able to tie down to the switches just stopped happening. Same architecture, nothing changed but the switches...problems disappeared. This was in the hands of very competent ISP network engineers too, so it was the kit, god knows what issues crop up in less well designed deployments.

Long story short - expensive kit does work better and more reliably. You might not be able to see it in specs or even measure it sometimes but go ask people who do this every day which they'd bet their job on...
 
Thinking about getting a Cisco SG 100D-08
8 Ports, Gigabit, Cisco Brand

Thought's?
 
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£25 if you're prepared to deal with issues later, £50 is you want a unit which will still be working flawlessly in 5+ years*, you pay your money and take your choice.
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Thank you for your post, it's a convincing answer to something that's been confusing me for a good few weeks. Very much appreciated.
 
I have a ProCurve 1800-8G and a 1400-8G and they are both fantastic. Not a single problem from any of them. :)

I almost bought a third ProCurve for downstairs, but I replaced my HomeHub2 with an Asus RT-N16 which has Gigabit ports. Not used it much yet, but did the job of transferring HD movies to the telly via my laptop.
 
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