Dell PowerConnect 2848 & 2824

Anyone have any experience with these switches.

It's time to upgrade the office network and I'm looking at these in particular for Gigabit LAN connections. We've successfully been using the older unmanaged Power Connects for 6 yrs or so without any issues, but the clinic load for the Medical EMR system is starting to ramp up and I want to see if I can increase the throughput on the network.

Most if not all the machines in the office have gigabit NICs and the Server has 2 as well, so I'm hoping to just increase the traffic speed a bit with a new switch or two.

If the Dell PCs aren't that great please feel free to tell me so. I'm not set on these, but if there is something better out there and just as reliable I'm all ears.

I'm not really looking into Cisco for this scenario. We don't have a need for that much power and the budget isn't that big.

Thanks!

I used Dell Powerconnects at both of my last two jobs without issue.

One thing to keep in mind with them, is when you buy them, buy one more of the largest one than you need since it's cheaper just to have a spare laying around than to put the warranty on the rest you do buy.

I've used a ton of them, no issues.

We have a mix of 6248/6224 stacks, 5424s, & 3548ps. They all work great for us. The one thing I would suggest is spend the money and get the fully managed ones like 3500, 5400, 5500, or 6200.

We got some pretty nice discounts through dell on the switches we have

I would personally look at HP ProCurve switches. Good cheaper alternative to Cisco.

Sc0ttFern said:

I would personally look at HP ProCurve switches. Good cheaper alternative to Cisco.

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hps are nice but double the price of the dell's and the cisco's.

BUT the best of the best tho

I run all powerconnect at home, and have a couple customers that are all dell shops that run them. The 28xx series are excellent switches for the price and have some features that the 1810 HP series lack.

At the end of the day buy em, you will not be disappointed.

We have a mix of the 62xx, 54xx, and 28xx.

The 62xx and 54xx switches are great to work with, the CLI is easy and makes things much quicker. the 28xx has a very limited CLI and sucks for configuration.

Thanks for the input. I'll check into the 54xx's as well and see what I get approved for!