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Naphta
18-12-10, 17:19
Looking at upgrading to Cat6 10 gigabit or at the very least 1 gigabit. Any ideas?
wonderlust
18-12-10, 17:47
I hope you've plenty of funds available for a 10 Gigabit Switch! Cheapest I could find was over £6K

For a Gigabit switch, I've been using a Netgear GS608 for some time, the only issue I have with it is that a PC with Marvel onboard Nic resets to 100Mbit every reboot and the switch needs to be rebooted to sync back at Gigabit speeds.

I have no issues with any of my PCs with Realtek based Nics. (and yes I have changed the cable ;))

OH and the GS608 supports Jumbo Frames! (Run mine at 4K)
Naphta
18-12-10, 19:17
Didnt think a 10GB switch would be quite so much to be fair. ^^
wonderlust
18-12-10, 19:36
Didnt think a 10GB switch would be quite so much to be fair. ^^

Search Google shopping for

Cisco Catalyst 4948 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Switch - Managed - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN
Smifis
18-12-10, 20:31
Wonderlust, search for
IBM | 32R1783-01
wonderlust
18-12-10, 21:25
That's not a 10 Gigabit switch as such.

It has 1 10Gigabit uplink port not PC ports:-


Nortel 10 Gigabit Uplink Ethernet Switch Module Switch 14 ports Gigabit EN + 2x10GBase-CX4 1x1000Base-T + 1 x XFP (empty) plug-in module
Smifis
18-12-10, 21:28
I see, thought i had found a bargin then :lol:
wonderlust
18-12-10, 21:32
Lol seems like it's not...

Gigabit was very expensive not too long ago, now it's pretty standard and a qeasonable quality 5 port unmanaged switch can be had for well under £50.

Give it a while and 10 Gigabit to the desktop will be standard.
Naphta
18-12-10, 21:45
Lol seems like it's not...

Gigabit was very expensive not too long ago, now it's pretty standard and a qeasonable quality 5 port unmanaged switch can be had for well under £50.

Give it a while and 10 Gigabit to the desktop will be standard.
Hmm, seems logical. I dread to think what mutlimode fibre is let alone singlemode.
michaelkenward
19-12-10, 11:28
Lol seems like it's not...

Gigabit was very expensive not too long ago, now it's pretty standard and a reasonable quality 5 port unmanaged switch can be had for well under £50.

Give it a while and 10 Gigabit to the desktop will be standard.
It has taken quite some time for gigabit LAN to become standard in modems and routers. I have had this on motherboards for years, but until recently Netgear, for example, made most of its router/modems at 100 Mb.

I had to buy a separate Gb switch to go with the router. Even when I bought a new router last year, integrated Gb LAN wasn't that widely available at a reasonable price.

More important, how many motherboards have 10 Gb connections?

Not much point in have a fast router that can only talk to itself.