( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Oct 9 2008
I ordered this switch when we were overhauling our office infrastructure. It works great, allowed to identify some severe port loads and concurrency issues that caused problems before. Port mirroring for monitoring works great, the limit of 4 ports is still there, but it is expected on a switch of this class. This switch does not allow for application selection for traffic priority, as much simpler models do, but it gives an experienced user much more flexibility in setting up permissions and QoS. The only drawback, and the sole reason i gave it 4 stars, was that in an all-Mac environment we had to bring in a Windows machine to administer this switch, since it can only be managed using Internet Explorer. Firefox or Opera on windows box did not work either. So, all in all it's a great product, but would be better if it had multi-browser support for configuration purposes.
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Posted: Sep 29 2008
The reviewers complaining about no Firefox support need to wake up, this is an entry level business switch, its server class, which has never really cared about such things. It's supposed to be managed from a server OS and not your macbook. While it would be nice to support all browsers it's a bit silly to dismiss the switch because of it. This product is noisy - you've been warned. I cracked mine open and there is no attempt to dampen the fans which are two 40mm SUNON running 12v 0.8a. The chips all have heat sinks on them. I removed the fans and put in single quieter fan and its better (don't mess with it unless you like voiding your warrantee). The web console is great, well featured with lots of advanced tools and settings to mess play with. I am pretty pleased with this purchase.
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Posted: Jul 25 2008
No offense, but the other reviewers are splitting hairs. I have used Cisco 2900, 3000, 4500 and 6500 series switches. These suckers have many features that $2500+ units don't: Ability to test lines remotely on a per-port basis, advanced diagnostics, etc. They work fine when fed by higher-end cisco equipment, work well with Kiwi syslog servers. Only negative I can find is that they don't have command line interface, but what do you want for "same-as-cisco for 1/5 the price?"
