Recommendations for cheap networking. Particularly switches.
Hey guys, I've been looking into picking up a Gig switch, but as usually online reviews seem to be 50/50 on "It's GREAT!" vs "It died in 3 months". So, I'm asking this crowd what a good recommendation for a Gig (or even 10/100) switch would be. I'd like to have the option of expanding my LAN to 10+ when necessary, but would like to acquire some reliable equipment for such.
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In my experience, Netgear are pricier but they tend to survive. It's not ideal, but if it's cheaper you could get a couple of 5 port Gig switches and link them, but really if you're expanding to 10+ then you're talking a proper unmanaged desktop switch.
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Avoid D-Link, they are cheaper and they die. All the time.
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Avoid D-Link, they are cheaper and they die. All the time.
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do NOT daisy chain switches. Get a switch with enough ports. You'll get better performance.
I'd question why you need 1Gb networking. It's more expensive (you'll need 1Gb network cards in all your PCs to take advantage of it.
Plus, there's a low probability the game consumes that much bandwidth between SIX computes.
Whole departments in large corporations ran just fine on 100Mb networks (including playing LAN games at lunch).
So buy a 8-24 port 100Mb switch. Should be fairly cheap. Even used will work (as corproations upgrade their old 100Mb to 1Gb equipment, it becomes spare HW).
I'd question why you need 1Gb networking. It's more expensive (you'll need 1Gb network cards in all your PCs to take advantage of it.
Plus, there's a low probability the game consumes that much bandwidth between SIX computes.
Whole departments in large corporations ran just fine on 100Mb networks (including playing LAN games at lunch).
So buy a 8-24 port 100Mb switch. Should be fairly cheap. Even used will work (as corproations upgrade their old 100Mb to 1Gb equipment, it becomes spare HW).
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