Re: decent SOHO switches?

I personally use these:

"Unmanaged" with  QoS, VLAN, IGMP Snooping etc.

TPlink TL-SG108E
TPlink TL-SG105E

There now three categories of switches.
- Unmanaged dumb.
- "Unmanaged" web/smart
- Managed


On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 12:02 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I hope this isn't too far off topic.
> 
> What's available in the way of managed switches (at least including
> 802.1q VLANs) at a suitable price for a small office?
> 
> The (8-port) one I bought 4 years ago, even at the time the https ui
> didn't work, because browsers had stopped supporting old certs or
> ciphers or something. I raised it with the wholesaler, who raised it
> with the manufacturer - no new firmware ever came out. I couldn't
> load
> my own cert onto it either.
> 
> Is there anything better around, at a reasonable price?
> 
> I'm not keen on what I understand is the cisco model either, where
> you
> have to maintain a support contract to get any updates.
> 
> Stretching even further - I don't suppose there's anything out there
> with fully Free (as in freedom) firmware? Does SDN give us that?
> 
> Feel free to reply off-list if you don't want to promote (or
> disparage)
> your suppliers (or self) in public :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
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