Re: decent SOHO switches?

Hi,

Those certainly have the advantage of price ... and I think TPlink
mostly seem to be ok, don't they.

Cheers,
Richard

On 28/06/19 12:50 PM, Jean-Francois Pirus wrote:
> 
> 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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