I have 3 of those scattered around the house https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00K4DS5KU?ref=emc_s_m_5_i_atc Same model but "metal" case I can vouch for them, it's been a few years and they are solid, except for when one of them had a hardcoded MAC of de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe which annoyed me enough to return it (they just sent me a new one, and now I have a dead cow coffee shop in my basement) On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:41 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Well canada computers has a 5 port gigabit ethernet switch for $30.
A five-port ethernet switch gives you 3 more ethernet ports than you started with: one of the five is taken by "upstream" and another one is takeen by the device that used to use it.
I find that it is usually worth buying an eight-port switch:
- it gives you 6 more ports than you started with
- it usually costs only a little more space, money, power than a five-port switch
Make sure you get a gigabit switch: "fast" means 100 Mb/s, which is slower for very little savings.
Some people prefer metal cases over plastic. I think plastic is fine.
Finding things on Amazon or Canada Computers is annoyingly difficult. Here's a plastic TP-Link 8-port gigabit switch that is currently on sale on Amazon.ca for $22.99.
< https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-TL-SG1008D-1000Mbps-Switching-Capacity/dp/B001...
I have not carefully shopped to come up with this. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk