RE: 24 Port RM Gigabit Switches

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think mine came from there too - arrived next day and looks brand
new!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jamie Whitehorn
> Sent: 22 January 2009 13:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 24 Port RM Gigabit Switches
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> Hi Mark,
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> I managed to get a re-furbished Netgear GS724T off Trusted Goods on
> eBay for =A399+P&P a couple of months ago. It was refurbished by
Netgear
> and came with a 3 month warranty. It's living in the homemade node0
> rack in the loft and, so far, it's behaved flawlessly. If you keep an
> eye on eBay you should be able to pick up a 2nd hand unit for sub
=A3100,
> though you might need to wait for a couple of auctions to get that
> price.
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> The speed thing on Ethernet is all or nothing. You either get gigabit,
> or it will fallback to megabit. The good news is you don't need cat5e
> for gigabit, cat5 should work. The only gotcha I can think of it 100Mb
> Ethernet uses 4 of the 8 wires in a cable, Gigabit uses all 8 and is a
> bit more sensative to cable termination and strain as it uses multiple
> signal levels rather than the simple 1 or 0
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet).
Having said that, I've
> got gigabit connections on all of my cabling, and it's not the worlds
> best (including the 4 spliced cables where I got the measurements
wrong
> and had to add some cable on - doh!)
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> HTH, Jamie
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