Just upgraded my home network. I had a very nice, albeit noisy 3com 10/100 rackmount 12 port switch ticking along nicely but I'd been hankering for a gigabit switch for a while now.
Dell ran a promotion recently on their network gear and I managed to pick up a PowerConnect 2716 16 port gigabit switch for under a 100 quid.
It's not for big business certainly, but it's rack mountable, unmanaged/web managed, supports 10/100/1000 auto switch on all ports and supports jumbo frames. Best of all, no fans! It just slotted in as a replacement for my 3com and I enabled jumbo frames on it, my pc and my Infrant ReadyNas and got a bit of a performance boost from it. It's not 10 times faster like the numbers suggest.. but it was a 100 quid well spent.
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