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Netgear do some half decent fully managed switches. It’s not all blue crap off Amazon. The worst switches I ever used were HPE ones in the old C5000 blade chas
by dktnj 3y ago
Netgear do some half decent fully managed switches. It’s not all blue crap off Amazon.
The worst switches I ever used were HPE ones in the old C5000 blade chassis. Absolute turds. Packet loss, constant port failures and complete hangs. HPE’s solution was to tell us to buy new ones.
- bluedino 3y agoThe worst switches I've ever used would probably be various 'Cisco' switches from their small business line, usually ones that ran the same OS used when they were sold under different names like 3Com or Linksys.
- incahoots 3y agooh god, when I worked for a small telecom in the midwest they heavily used the 3Com switches. They were the bane of my existance, things would power loop, or my favorite, continue to work but prevent any sort of access to them.
- publicmail 3y ago> It’s not all blue crap off Amazon. To be honest, those little blue unmanaged Netgear switches aren’t bad at all. We have dozens of them in our lab at work running 24/7 for like decades and have never had a failure that I remember.
- dktnj 3y agoThey aren’t terrible as long as you have a supply of wall warts available. I ended up powering mine off a little Meanwell switching supply in the end as they don’t blow up as often.