Which 8 Port Switch?

crazysniper · 6 Mar 2011 at 22:15

Hi Everyone,

Can you help me decide which Switch to buy please.. My options are below. At present I am leaning over the Cisco SD2008T because it supports Jumbo Frames. But please feel free to comment. Thanks.

HP ProCurve 1410 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Cisco SD2008T 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Netgear ProSafe GS108 8 Port Gigabit Switch

PhillyDee · 6 Mar 2011 at 23:54

I think most people here would recommend the Procurves.

bremen1874 · 7 Mar 2011 at 02:38

Apart from the colour of the paint you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between the HP and the Netgear.

If you have a use for Jumbo Frames then the Cisco would make sense.

I’ve recently been looking at the ProSafe Plus GS108E as it offers some additional features (VLAN, QOS, Etc.), but still no Jumbo Frames AFAIK.

Snapshot · 7 Mar 2011 at 07:02

According to this page on Netgear's site some versions of the GS108 do support jumbo frames. I'm guessing it's the later ones but I can't get at mine to see if the serial number is in any of the ranges mentioned.

crazysniper · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:39

Thanks for all the reply gents. Appreciate it. I will check if i can find Netgear with Jumbo Frames support. If not, will go ahead with the Cisco i think.

23JMZ07 · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:55

The new GS108's support Jumbo Frames I have one myself

bremen1874 · 9 Mar 2011 at 02:35

It's a bit late, but I just realised that the ProCurve 1410 also appears to support Jumbo Frames.

Tomorrow I'm going to a site where I recently installed two of them, if I get the opportunity I'll try it.