So, I'm in a situation where I might need to buy another switch. My current baseline for switches is Netgear Prosafe; I've had good luck with them, they support jumbo frames, etc.
For a home environment, is there any reason to consider getting anything else other than a prosafe (or something of similar quality, like a procurve).
Is something like LACP usable in a home environment to exceed gigabit on a reasonable (< $1000) budget?
What about VLANs? What sort of practical use would they have in a home environment?
I'm looking at getting a fairly small switch ths time, but something that I can take along with me to a house when I decide to wire up every room in a house with cat6. I currently have a 5 port prosafe, and will likely be looking at something in the 8-12 port range.
If it's not obvious, I'm not a networking guy, so I have no interest in having testbeds or labs for the sole purpose of networking; although I wouldn't mind a little something to play with.
Any recommendations? Also, I use all intel gigE nics for any machine that matters in the house, if this matters at all (for vlan/lacp support).
Use case for lacp would be NFS between 2 1 server and 1-2 clients.
For a home environment, is there any reason to consider getting anything else other than a prosafe (or something of similar quality, like a procurve).
Is something like LACP usable in a home environment to exceed gigabit on a reasonable (< $1000) budget?
What about VLANs? What sort of practical use would they have in a home environment?
I'm looking at getting a fairly small switch ths time, but something that I can take along with me to a house when I decide to wire up every room in a house with cat6. I currently have a 5 port prosafe, and will likely be looking at something in the 8-12 port range.
If it's not obvious, I'm not a networking guy, so I have no interest in having testbeds or labs for the sole purpose of networking; although I wouldn't mind a little something to play with.
Any recommendations? Also, I use all intel gigE nics for any machine that matters in the house, if this matters at all (for vlan/lacp support).
Use case for lacp would be NFS between 2 1 server and 1-2 clients.