[TriLUG] Network switches

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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.

      As other mentioned above, some switches have web interfaces
(like like the 3Com).

> 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.

      Bandwith? QoS?

> 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.
>
      IMHO, price diff between gigabit and a 100TX switch is not that horrible.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Kevin Otte" <nivex at nivex.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Network switches
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>> 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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