Managed switch for home

[Spammeh]

Hi All,

Looking at getting a half decent managed switch for home, with the view of getting CAT6 run throughout the house. Initially looking at a 24p one if possible, but must be fanless, can't have the noise unfortunately.

Anything around the £100-150 mark would be ideal, am I looking towards something like a DLink?

Open to suggestions

N.B. Thought this would be best suited to the enterprise solutions forums with the discussion around managed switches

 

[Shad]

Netgear GS724T is a pretty good start. It's L2+ (aka Smart) rather than full L3 but that will probably be enough to begin with.

 

[Spammeh]

@Shad - you use one of these yourself? Are they loud?

 

[growse]

Has to be the Proliant 1810-24: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/net...hes/HP_1810_Switch_Series/index.aspx#tab=TAB3

Should be able to get one for <150, and it's fanless and you get pretty good management features on it.

 

[ASE001]

I use a DGS-1210-24, it does everything I need which is mainly VLAN support. Had it over a year now and no issues. You can get for around £120 at the moment.

 

[Praetorian]

Gotta second the Proliant 1810-24. Bullet proof reliability. I've purchased both of mine, used, for under £70 and they've been rock solid since the day I installed them in the rack and set them up

 

[Shad]

@Shad - you use one of these yourself? Are they loud?

I did for about 4 years until recently (upgraded to the 48 port model). No fans in the 24 port units so they are silent.

 

[Caged]

The 1810s are fine for home. I have a few that have been replaced by HP and still have reliability issues though, so hold off on using them for anything critical.

 

[Spammeh]

Am going to have a look around for an 1810-24 however those on the Bay seems to be upwards of £100. Looking at completed listings they should be going for much less than that - I will keep my eyes and ears open

Cheers all

 

[RimBlock]

I have a 1810-24G and have had it for the last 3 years. Where I am they come with next business day lifetime replacement warranty. My original unit failed, we did get hit by lightning... twice, and I contacted HP via their website and had a replcement delivered the following day. Would have to check if the same NBD lifetime warranty is also standard for this switch in the UK. I almost never reboot the switch and it just keeps ticking along. There is also a 8 and 48 port version and the 1910-24G is also good if you want L3 routing but is a chunk more expensive.

The v2 is a little more efficent, has a little more backbone bandwidth and is in a slightly different format (sits in the center of longer rack ears).

RB

 

[leigh_boy]

maybe i missed this, what do you need it for? vlans? teaming?

 

[Spammeh]

Certainly vlanning & teaming. I have a media server which could do with a bit of throughput, as could my ESXi box. Its main use will be to pass traffic of course form the room.

Getting a managed switch over something like a smart switch or unmanaged is an opportunity to learn a bit too

 

[Zarf]

I picked up a couple of 3Com's 24port Gigabit switches a few years ago dirt cheap on the bay (like £25 each) One's just a smart switch but it handles VLAN's, Teaming, SNMP fine. The other one is a beastly 2U Layer3 proper managed one that would have cost a few grand new. I did have to mod the fans in it for sanity's sake (24V 50mm fans are not pleasant, even with the switch hidden away in a cupboard!)
To be honest a smart switch is fine for all practical home purposes, for learning I'd grab GNS3 where you can go wild with advanced setups.

 

[Shad]

To be honest a smart switch is fine for all practical home purposes

This. Except VLAN routing. But you could do that in software with pfSense etc.

What I've done is go with a 48 port Netgear 'smart' L2+ switch and a Cisco 10 port L3 switch to handle VLAN routing, with a 4 port LAG between the two. Best of both worlds IMO.