In a message written on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
The holy grail I'm searching for now? A GigE switch with POE, unmanaged is ok, and probably preferred from a price perspective; but with NO FAN.
I can't help with the POE part. I have a 16-port D-Link DGS-1016D -- GigE, no fan, unmanaged.
Yeah, found a few of those. My reason is simple. There are people who make a 4-5 port switch that is POE-powered, that is it gets it's power on the POE uplink and then provides 3-4 switched ports with no power. So if I have a POE central switch, in addition for working for the direct to Phone and Camera POE device ports it would allow me to have desktop hubs where I need a breakout without any power cable, plus they would then all be on the central UPS! I realize this is a bit of a tall order, as the switch must be designed to deliver full wattage on all ports even though that might not happen. I would accept a switch with fans that rather than just changing speed kept them off until a temperature threshold was reached. Heck, even finding 16 port _unmanaged_ _affordable_ POE is very hard, a couple of 100M options, I don't think I know of any GigE options, and Managed seems to add $1k to the price, which is steep for home. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/