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Can anyone tell me the best networking managed switches and unmanaged switches preferbly 48port gigabit switches. There are roughly 20 machines in 10 various rooms and 2 rooms with 40 machines.
Also can anyone tell me the best wireless access point to use.
These are all for educational purporses.
Thanks
Tush
dell unmanaged switches look quite good for the price and i assume most schools/collages have a dell account. i would recommend that you have 100baset for the link between computers and the first switch.these can be unmanaged. you should then use a gigabit for a backbone. this switch should be managed. get a switch that allow vlaning and connect the wlans to a seperate vlan. and firewall off this lan. to protect the rest of the network. i'll throw together a diagram if you cant grasp what i'm on about.
best - many standards - but I guess for education price is important.
i would have to say Dlink is good - I have always had good after sales support;
of the others
- I have been disappointed by 3-com and linksys
- Never able to afford cisco (personally) though heard good things professionally
- I had an excellent 10Mhz switch from HP - but when I needed support (which I had paid 50% extra for) they failed to meet their commitment and didn't give a t*** - I will never buy another product from them again
Dell web managed 16 port gigabit switches are on offer right now for £78 incl VAT and shipping, you'd just need a few of them. Their 24 and 48 port switches are fairly reasonably priced.
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...dt1&l=en&s=bsd