[TriLUG] Managed or Unmanaged switch

[Grawburg via TriLUG]

I forgot to mention...no VOIP. We got rid of our Ringio service a year ago. Hated it!  No 911 service and other annoyances. Greenlight supplies
both phone and Internet services.


-----Original Message----- 
> From: "Mauricio Tavares" <raubvogel at gmail.com> 
> To: "Grawburg" <grawburg at myglnc.com>, "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org> 
> Date: 10/10/16 10:44 AM 
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Managed or Unmanaged switch 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > I'm upgrading our 24 port switch and don't know what determines when I should consider a managed switch.
> > There are less than 8 simultaneous network users, and then only doing Web searching or e-mail, and an occasional
> > transfer of data to a NAS (<1 GB at a time). I also have a Raspberry Pi sending video from one floor
> > to another Pi that displays it. No plans for a VPN.
> >
>       I prefer managed since I like to keep traffic organized and give
> priority to what I consider important. And log as needed.
> 
> For instance, I kinda like to put voip and video on their own vlans.

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