What I am hoping for is some suggestions on some higher end stuff that I can scour eBay for used. I know some of you are in IT or at least in the know, would apriciate some suggestions.
So anyway what I "had" was a SMC 8505T 5 port Gigabit switch that suports jumbo frames up to 9000. The replacement needs to be Gigabit copper RJ45, 5 port minimum, 8 or more would be nice. Jumbo frames would be nice. Price range say under $200 eBay.
Came home from work today and nothing in the house could connect, when computers were booted the network connections would bounce between connected and disconnected, some would only connect at 100 to a gigabit newtowk after 20 or so connected disconnected cycles, if they stayed connected at all. I traced it down to the network switch and swapped it with an older 10/100 switch I had and everything is back to normal, albeit slow now. Wish I knew what the heck went on today, no pets friends or wife in the bouse today, UPS didn't log any events not that it could get to the server to record them with the nework all screwey...
So anyway what I "had" was a SMC 8505T 5 port Gigabit switch that suports jumbo frames up to 9000. The replacement needs to be Gigabit copper RJ45, 5 port minimum, 8 or more would be nice. Jumbo frames would be nice. Price range say under $200 eBay.
Came home from work today and nothing in the house could connect, when computers were booted the network connections would bounce between connected and disconnected, some would only connect at 100 to a gigabit newtowk after 20 or so connected disconnected cycles, if they stayed connected at all. I traced it down to the network switch and swapped it with an older 10/100 switch I had and everything is back to normal, albeit slow now. Wish I knew what the heck went on today, no pets friends or wife in the bouse today, UPS didn't log any events not that it could get to the server to record them with the nework all screwey...
