gig switch 24 ports or more

Sniipe

Komplett has nothing, Elara has a few but I don't know if they are reasnoable.

Basically for a gaming lan a gig switch would be nice. Cisco switches I know are the best. What specs should I get? Automatic change to 1gig, managed...? I really would like any advise, or perhaps links to goo gig switches around 400euro.

http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=35&scid=40&prid=673

Thanks.

Stephen

You really don't need gigabit ethernet for gaming. Won't impact your pings.

Capt'n Midnight

One nice thing about gigabit is that you don't need crossover cables - it auto detects and can use a straight cable - handy if you are only linking two machines.

Gigabit switches seem to take longer to boot then earlier ones.

Gigabit uses Longer minimum packet sizes that 10/100 - this is because the time outs are the same because it's the same type of cable. This means it will transfer huge blocks of data much faster - eg: Backups. But if you have a lot of people connected all using for example telnet (one byte of data per packet) there probably wouldn't be a vast improvement

ro2

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=16V6&searchphrase=gs524t

That's fairly good value. Never used a gigabit netgear switch, but the Ciscos take a bit longer to auto negotiate the link speed than the fast ethernet - can be a right pain if you've to test a load of cables.

Rew

ro2 wrote:

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Product+Details.htm?quicklinx=16V6&searchphrase=gs524t

That's fairly good value. Never used a gigabit netgear switch, but the Ciscos take a bit longer to auto negotiate the link speed than the fast ethernet - can be a right pain if you've to test a load of cables.

Buy a cable tester

ro2

I have a cable tester

A nice fluke networks one too - it connects to the switch and tells you what vlan you're on and gives you loads of other info on the cable type, length, if its a crossover... Still takes a Catalyst 3750 ten seconds to wake up and realise it's connected.