[TriLUG] Network switches

[Grawburg via TriLUG]

1. I'm doing no monitoring.  I should mention that there aren't many users and most of what anyone does is Internet searching. Although I have
enough IT experience to set things up I am not an IT professional. I actually retired from a real job almost 8 years ago.
2. I'm trying to look ahead to when we may have some streaming video in and out of the museum (Imagination Station Science Museum, Wilson) and
hoping to anticipate potential bottlenecks.
3. One concern I have is the age of the 3Com 3300 and whether or not that is something I should upgrade sooner than later.
4. We have no plans to use Gigabyte ethernet since no PC has a suitable NIC and we use only Cat5e.

 
-----Original Message----- 
> From: "Kevin Otte" <nivex at nivex.net> 
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Network switches 
> 
> This is a difficult question to answer without knowing what sort of
> throughput you're already seeing. Are there known pain points, such as
> congestion on the inter-switch links? What kind of monitoring are you doing?
> 
> On 09/13/2016 01:00 PM, Grawburg via TriLUG wrote:
> > What differences, if any, might I see by upgrading the small Netgear switches?

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