Know Your Switches?

[Jonny M]

Just got one of these (our computing group liberated about 7 from the server room), and was wondering if it's any good / has a good resale value

Here's some photos, I think I've got the model numbers of the kit in the shots, but can take more if needed.

Thanks

http://www.jonny-m.net/images/hpswitch/

[Jiff Lemon]

Looks like a 10mb switch with 100mb uplinks and managed too. Fair old peice of kit in its day, but not much use now I'm afraid

[Jonny M]

Might just fiddle with the management console to see if anything appeals then

[bmh.01]

Yeh unfortunately its a only 10mb switch so no real use any more, but I would say its deffinately worth having a mess with it.

[Shogun]

Il take it off you for a pc case

[Stoo]

yup, well worth having a play around with the management console just to see how it works

[Jonny M]

What's your opinions of HP switches compared to Dell/3com/Netgear/D-Link?

[Stoo]

never used one to compare with.. only ever used 3com/netgear/cisco

[unrealrocks]

Hey I have some similar ones sitting in a rack that we're made by SMC that I/we used to use for LAN games (had a few 24 port 10Mbps w/ 100Mbps uplinks) they are still great for gaming although file transfers just don't happen You'd probably get about £20 for it, just

[Jonny M]

Keeping it then

[Jonny M]

never used one to compare with.. only ever used 3com/netgear/cisco

How do Netgear compare with 3com and Cisco?

[unrealrocks]

How do Netgear compare with 3com and Cisco?

I was thinking that - Netgear are way down the list with 'Generic' HUBs

[Stoo]

The one I used at uni wasn't too bad, but it wasn't managed, so it wasn't really a proper comparison, but it did the job well enough.

[Apex]

HP stuff is up their with the cisco stuff

3com stuff am not impressed with

netgear stuff is just horrid

d-link and the dell stuff is middle ground

btw noting wrong with a managed 10mb switch it will cope with the ports at full speed a lot better then a unmanaged switch

also dunno if you can on the model you got but you can port trunk

[Jonny M]

Port trunk?

I'm a total novive at this enterprise level stuff, I just know about the home basics.

Thanks

BTW, who makes the Dell stuff?

Edit: Need a cheap serial cable :E