Recommend a switch

[RobTi]

Hi I think my switch is on it’s way out and wondered what was the flavour of the month in regards to either 5 or 8 port switches ?
Thanks

[philehidiot]

5 port according to the photo.

I'm helping.

[peterb]

Hi I think my switch is on it’s way out and wondered what was the flavour of the month in regards to either 5 or 8 port switches ?
Thanks

I assume you are looking at domestic/SoHo use?

Probably Netgear or TP-link are as good as any. As you go up in price you get more facilities - managed or unmanaged, size of the ARP cache, throughput, Vlan support PoE etc etc.

But for a domestic set up with 8 or so devices, the lower end of the ones I mentioned will be fine.

[DanceswithUnix]

I favour Netgear switches, the cheap plastic ones are fine. This PC is plugged into a GS5208, I have another downstairs as well as a 5 port in my son's room and a spare metal body version in the cupboard.

None of the brands are perfect, I've seen failures with all of them but these seem both very cheap and pretty solid probably because they run very cool.

There is a good chance your switch is fine but the PSU powering it has gone. If you have a same or better spec PSU you can try that might fix things, although switches are so cheap it probably isn't worth just buying the PSU.

[RobTi]

Okay so better tell the whole story,
I have a vm hub 3 with 1 lead going to an unmanaged 8 port switch (HP-PROCURVE 1410-8G) at my av unit, now I have 1 lead from this going to the attic to another unmanaged 5 port switch (tp- link Sg1005d) which has the win 10 pc connected with a whs 2011 and an Apple TV. Now server has been off for a couple of months and everything else worked okay,yesterday switched the server back on and I lose the win 10 connection with a report on the pc of a network cable unplugged, server connects to network and internet okay as does the Apple TV so swap the cables round and the pc has the same problem,switch server off and kill power to everything and switch back on same result, also tried resetting network settings on pc.
Finally got it working by unplugging the server and connecting the pc at half duplex so was wondering if the switch was on it’s way out

[Spreadie]

TP-Link do a decent, inexpensive, 8 port managed switch. Useful for port bonding and the like.

[DanceswithUnix]

Finally got it working by unplugging the server and connecting the pc at half duplex so was wondering if the switch was on it’s way out

I would think it likely enough that it would be worth spending the £12 on a new switch, vs the time trying new cables and network cards in PCs.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS2...dp/B00AYRZYG4/

[RobTi]

Okay egg on face time and happy to accept it, managed to get a monitor up into attic and connected to the server and tried disconnecting and reconnecting to every port on the switch and running a speed test an them all and everything was fine so I ruled out the switch repeated with the patch cables from the server and this problematic pc and they passed, now I am thinking to myself that I have ruled out the switch and the patch cables, here comes the bit that I forgot to mention I had an Ethernet cable that was buried behind a wall and ran round the attic with a couple of sockets on the ends, so you know what comes next I cut off the end of the cable and redid the connection to the socket and all working fine now, so somehow the connections must have broke/loosened since I was last up there.
So only posting in case anyone in the future searches this

[peterb]

Glad you got it sorted! Tricky one to diagnose though!

[DanceswithUnix]

You can get a connection tester pretty cheap. Not that I'm sure I could find mine

[RobTi]

That’s another problem I also have a tester somewhere but forgot all about it