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What (managed) switch are you using? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by UncleReaton@lemmy.ml to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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I currently have an old Cisco Catalyst 2960. I'm limited by the 100Mbps speed and it's starting to really bothering me. I was thinking of maybe switching to a Mikrotik CRS112-8P-4S-IN but i'd like to you know what you folks are using.

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have an older Zyxel, been thinking of upgrading at some point too. Will probably just get another Zyxel, they've been rock solid IMO.

One thing to keep in mind, and I don't know how much you care about this, a lot of these managed/smart switches nowadays try to force you into cloud management. You would need to create an account on the vendor's website just to be able to access the management features of your own network switch.. I'm not into that so personally I rule out any switch that has mandatory cloud management features.

[–] UncleReaton@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I might check Zyxel then.

Yeah i clearly don't want any cloud crap

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just double check the specs when you buy :)

Zyxel has jumped onto the cloud crap bandwagon with their newer switches. But AFAIK they do not force you to use it (most/all of them can still be run standalone) so at least they're doing it right.