[Cialug] RE: Netgear Switches

[John Roach]

At present, I have some Netgear deployed to supplement our Extreme
switches. I have not had any issues with them. On the other hand we
picked them because they provide poe to our phones. From my qos
monitoring etc, we are not showing any loss. It is hard to beat their
price per port.

John Roach 
Information Technology 
Easter Seals Iowa 
(515) 309-1780

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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of David Champion
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:33 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Snort in a switched network

Speaking of switches... I'm loooking at getting a good but not too 
expensive 10/100/1000 managed switch. I'm leaning towards the Netgear 
GS724T :

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/GS724T.php

Newegg has them for $322.

The other one I was thinking about is the Dell 3424:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pwcnt_3424?
c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

They're $374 (retail price).

I've also used some Nortel / Baystack 10/100 switches, which were very 
good, but they're a bit pricey on their gigabit equipment still. They 
are over twice as much as either of the options above. Netgear is owned 
by the same people, but on the surface anyway, it looks like they've 
kept the products seperate.

I've had bad experiences with HP and 3Com networking equipment, so I'd 
like to stay away from them.

Anyone have any experience with these? I'm currently running a mix of 
Dell & Netgear, and both of them have been very well behaved.

-dc

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