Is Gigabit Ready for the Consumer?#

After purchasing two consumer grade gigabit switches, the NetGear GS108 and the Linksys SD2008, and having them both fail I really started to think if gigabit was ready for the consumer. I would have to say from my experience with consumer grade gigabit switches that it is definitely not ready for prime time.

The good news is as a consumer you can still have gigabit, you just may pay a little bit more for it. I would recommend purchasing business class switches. The switches I'm using are the Dell PowerConnect 2708 which I'm very impressed with thus far; though it does not take much to impress me at this point, staying turned on is enough:)

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Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:35:06 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) #    Comments [1]  | 

 

Friday, March 21, 2008 9:08:14 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I just bought this one. Very loud fans but it is in a closet.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1226790
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