[geeks] Recommendations on an Ethernet Switch?

[Dan Sikorski]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:05:10 -0500
>Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:
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>>The rack is in a 
>>closet that has the door mostly closed all of the time, open enough for 
>>air to flow and not cook the closet, but closed enough to keep a lot of 
>>the noise from coming into the room.
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>How much stuff do you have in the rack, and how cool is the room outside the closet? I'd like to do this with my rack, but I have been afraid that unless I have some sort of vent to the attic, it would charbroil the closet and rack gear :). 
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(responding to an old message since i'm lazy and it took me this long to 
actually take and post pictures)

I have this much stuff in the rack:
http://dansikorski.com/closet/dooropen.jpg

and i have it open this much: (you can barely see the bungee cords 
attached to the shelf that i use to keep the door in place)
http://dansikorski.com/closet/doorclosed.jpg

The room stays a few degrees F warmer than the rest of the apartment 
(has my main PC in the room, and quite often, me), so it's probably 
about 73-74F.  The closet stays a few degrees warmer than that, probably 
75-76F.  Having the door closed like that greatly decreases the amount 
of fan and drive noise that makes it into the room.  I've thought about 
adding a vent to go through the wall into the closet where my furnace 
and water heater are, but haven't, that would require effort. :)

    -Dan Sikorski