Fredde87 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 How come all routers and switches keep dieing on me? :p Anyway I have never had a 100% working switch/router but I am concidering upgrading to a gigabit network, but I cant decide on which brand to go with.... I have to following to choose from, Linksys, Belkin, Netgear. I have had problems with all of them except for linksys (never tried one) but I read that they are not good for performance which is the reason why I am upgrading... Both are 5 ports (might get the same modell but the 8 port version if I can afford it)... It is a Linksys EG005W, Belkin F5D5141EA5 and a Netgear GS605 that I am concidering... So what do you think? I need it to be stable and fast, noise isnt really a problem since it will be in the closet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filter04 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 i have a netgear router/modem/switch on which the 4th port doesn't work. everything else works fine, but the 4th port doesn't work at all. It's not a gigabit router, just a 100mbps one, but still, it annoys me. just an opinion on Netgear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted January 23, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 23, 2005 I've only ever had one Linksys router fail me... and my experiances with them have been positive, so I suggest Linksys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredde87 Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 ^^ roufly how many linksys routers have you had? Did you experience performace loose? Were can one find benchmarking of different switches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwbackkid Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Get Linksys Hands Down now if you want power (3com,Cicso,extremenetworks) just to name some of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zac1333 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Dell has some pretty inexpensive unmanaged switches. I have some of their managed switches and have had no problems whatsoever. Just check out the switching capacity of each of them and compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted January 30, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 30, 2005 ^^ roufly how many linksys routers have you had? Did you experience performace loose? 585343068[/snapback] I've had 2 on this network, and I've installed about 6 or 7 onto friends' networks... and like I said, only one has failed (so far, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiddlie Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I HATE linksys. For some reason port forwarding has NEVER worked properly, and it took them almost a year to fix some early firmware issues where certain features (important, but i cant remember what exactly) wouldn't work at all. Personally, i'd stay well clear. I know they are owned by Cisco, which is why i originally got it, but just no! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyyPunk Veteran Posted January 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 30, 2005 I am using a 24port gigabit switch from netgear, and it has served us great. I would assume there less amount of port ones are just as good...I have not used any other gigabit switch to rate comparitively though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyyPunk Veteran Posted January 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 30, 2005 oh yea, and its this: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/Product...uctlisting.aspx Netgear GS524T 24-Port 10/100/1000Base-T Copper Gigabit Switch...but we paid only $300 shipped ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zac1333 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Here's a link to the Dell Gigabit Switches: Dell Gigabit Switches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackice912 Veteran Posted January 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted January 30, 2005 I HATE linksys. For some reason port forwarding has NEVER worked properly, and it took them almost a year to fix some early firmware issues where certain features (important, but i cant remember what exactly) wouldn't work at all. Personally, i'd stay well clear. I know they are owned by Cisco, which is why i originally got it, but just no! 585381106[/snapback] I don't know, port forwarding works fine for me on my WRT54G. I have about five forwards setup (some for VPN, others for P2P apps) and I have no problems. Here's a link to the Dell Gigabit Switches:Dell Gigabit Switches 585381504[/snapback] I'd love to convert my network to gigabit. I'd hate to upgrade all my hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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