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[Tattysnuc]

Ooh, now I am a happy little fella.

I crawled under the stairs to where my 10/100 switch was, and have swapped it now for the Netgear one. The main PC's are back on the network, and transferring from the server to my gaming rig (2Raid0 Gen 2 SSDs read 500, write 250) averaged 100mb/sec for half a dozen 1gb films, and writing back to the server averaged 150mb/sec.

Very happy bunny. Very happy indeed. Let's see how often it needs rebooting....

just to add, my gigabit switch has not needed any attention since it was connected. Fire up, and forget.... so far!

[Flibb]

There is a seller doing netgear GS108 on ebay for £30 delivered, but note you need to have a uk PSU as they come with a US ones. I had a spare PSU laying around, the switch that turned up is new

[Biscuit]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Netgear-Pr...item2c5f8fd38c


Would this power adapter work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-NE...item2a0cc423c4

[badass]

is POE possible with Gigabit? In 10/100 4 cables are redundant, therefore the remaining cables are used to carry Power if so employed. I'm fairly sure that Gigabit uses all 8 cables, so therefore I'm not sure which cable would carry the current for POE as they are now all utilised.

PoE is most certainly possible on gigabit ethernet. The standard is 802.3 af
I have appx £70,000 worth of cisco gigabit PoE switches at my work so its not just theoretical.
However I guess gigabit and PoE is a lot more expensive than just gigabit.

[Flibb]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Netgear-Pr...item2c5f8fd38c


Would this power adapter work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-NE...item2a0cc423c4

That looks right, the US plugged one that came with my prosafe was either 1 or 1.5 A

[Carr0t]

is POE possible with Gigabit? In 10/100 4 cables are redundant, therefore the remaining cables are used to carry Power if so employed. I'm fairly sure that Gigabit uses all 8 cables, so therefore I'm not sure which cable would carry the current for POE as they are now all utilised.

As has already been said, it is perfectly possible, but you're right in that gigabit does use all 8 wires in the cable. Data transmission is just modulation of a tiny wattage electrical signal down the wire of course, so you can still modulate in the same way even if the baseline power being pushed down the cable is much higher. It just requires more fettling to make sure it all works correctly, and there is some magic in there that I admit to not understanding (but is probably really simple) to make sure that you don't toast anything that *doesn't* want PoE when you plug it in.

[MuscleFlex]

hey i have a question...
If I get one of these gigaswitches... and i plug everything i have to it (laptop, nas, computer)
then i plug my Sky router into it...

would the sky router contaminate the gigaswitch and reduce everything to a 100meg speed?

[Biscuit]

No, each individual port should auto-negotiate its speed with the device its connected too and it will not have any effect on the speeds of the other ports.

[MuscleFlex]

thanks biscuit! much appreciated

[Biscuit]

my 8 port netgear arrived (from the above mentioned seller). It actually came with a uk supply, not an official one mind but it seems ok. I will just use the official one anyway i reckon