[geeks] Seems like low-cost Cisco 10/100 switches are available

[Dan Sikorski]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
> I don't think  a commodity gige switch is going to offer things like 
> vlans or port mirroring, and I could see more advanced home users 
> wanting both.  And I know I've heard people say they need the ability 
> to turn off auto-negotiate and just set the port settings to the 
> correct values to make things work with various fun equipment.

The biggest deal to me is that i do not tolerate the crap that the 
cheapo soho switches give me.  With netgear and the like, i've had to 
reset (power cycle) a switch because it stopped working completely, or 
the switch between the 10 and 100mbit segments stopped working, allowing 
each to operate seperately.  No thank you, i'll deal with some extra 
noise instead of dealing with that kind of crap.  This is the same 
reason why we buy procurve and cisco networking hardware for small 
offices.  We don't need any of the management features, we just want 
stuff that works.  I find that most home users don't care if they have 
to power cycle their networking equipment regularly.  I do.

    -Dan Sikorski