[Asterisk-biz] Talking of PoE ...

[John Daragon]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> John Daragon wrote:
> 
>> bclem at im-online.net wrote:
>>
>>> Would you mind telling us what managed switched you found which was 
>>> inexpensive?
>>
>>
>>
>> I thought someone might ask that!
>>
>> I was reeling fron the sticker shock when I looked at the PoE injector 
>> that Snom sell in Europe. 24 ports of DC goodness for £1659.93 !!
>>
>> Compare this with NetGear's 24 port 10/100 Mbit Layer 3 managed switch 
>> with a couple of Gigabit ports and 802.3af PoE and an iPod shuffle for 
>> £649.99 retail one off.
>>
>> And it's blue.  What's not to like ?
>>
>> jd
>>
> 
> jd,
> 
>     The fact that it is a piece of junk (FSM7326P)!  Bought two, both 
> had bad flash after a firmware upgrade (tried one, talked with Netgear 
> and vendor, and tried the other once a replacement was here)...  No 
> secondary flash either.
> 
>     I needed to upgrade the firmware because the switch had MAJOR 
> software and interface bugs to the point where it was unusable on a 
> fairly standard corporate network with LACP, GVRP, 802.1p/q, etc.
> 
>     As a matter of fact, I have nothing positive to say about them 
> whatsoever (although I think they do run Linux, which is neat, I guess).
> 
>     I am sure some people have had success with them, I just haven't 
> heard about it!
> 
>     I am somewhat interested in Dell's new offerings of 24 and 48 port 
> PoE switches, I would love to try those out...
> 
> P.S. - They're really more of a purple, at least here in the US...

That's a shame.  I've always had a lot of respect for NetGear - all of 
their stuff has just worked for me in the past. Do you think they just 
released it before the code was ready, or do you think it's irretrievable ?


jd

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