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    • D Offline
      doktornotor Banned
      last edited by

      You might try one of these:

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      • valnarV Offline
        valnar
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        Well, a Cisco Nexus 7710 fits the bill.

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        • D Offline
          dandadea1
          last edited by

          Thanks for all of the advise Sir's =)

          Just want to share my setup Pf sense + Access point Network System

          Server:

          Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V
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          Power Supply - Corsair VS450
          HDD - Seagate 80GB
          Casing - Techware Qube ITX Case
          Lan Card - Intel 2 port Gigabit Ethernet LAN Expansion Card

          Access Point - Unifi AC Pro

          What do you think Guys ? =)

          Thanks All and God Speed =)

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          • johnpozJ Offline
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            So do you have some sort of budget in mind?  And we can suggests some switches that will allow you to do vlans that fall within your budget.. Do you require/want a cli access to the switch.. Other than vlans is there any sort of other feature you would want/need?  IGMP snooping?  Private vlans? Port security? etc..

            Best you can get for under 100, 200, 300 - what is the upper limit your willing to spend?  Since you have unifi AP, are you wanting POE support on this switch?  How many ports are you wanting/needing?  Are you going to add more POE devices?  Cameras, phones, etc..

            Do you have any brands that you like over another?  Do you have some hate for specific brands?  If you like your unifi AP, they do make switches that are pretty reasonable in price for their feature sets, etc.

            "HDD - Seagate 80GB "

            I am guessing you meant SSD here?  Since a 80GB HDD is going to be OLD as the freaking hills ;) hehehe  They don't make hard disks with platters that small these days..

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            • N Offline
              n3by
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              Since we are talking about switches please recommend me one model/brand that have at least one port for fiber optic and minimum 6 Ethernet since one of my provider at home want to switch from Ethernet connections to fiber optic and I think it is better to buy a switch than a media converter.
              I have no problems with used equipments because of the price… I seen a cheap 3COM 4900 - 3C17700 with 4-Port 1000BASE-SX extension but I am not sure if it came with transceivers and if I can allocate one optical port to VLAN - WAN and how much power will use.
              I don't care of POE.

              thank you.

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              • DerelictD Offline
                Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
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                D-Link DGS-1100-18 probably. Or maybe a DGS-1100-10P - that's what I have under my desk doing LACP over dual fiber and powering the phones and a Ruckus AP. I would prefer a Brocade ICX6430-C12 but that's probably just me.

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                • johnpozJ Offline
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                  And what ISP would be handing off the fiber directly too you?  They would put in an ONT most likely..

                  So you want a switch you can put sfp into to add fiber connectivity.. You can pickup a cisco SG300 for $125 on amazon NEW… Has 2 combo ports you could add sfp too for fiber.

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                  • DerelictD Offline
                    Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                    last edited by

                    Waiting patiently to have to ask my ISP "Single- or Multi-mode?" Yes an SG300 is a solid choice too.

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                    • bingo600B Offline
                      bingo600
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                      @Derelict:

                      Waiting patiently to have to ask my ISP "Single- or Multi-mode?"

                      Look at the incomming cable if it's a 9µ it's Single .. But you knew that  ;)

                      Re. Fiberswitches.
                      If the Cisco SFP's for the 300 are as expensive as for the Catalysts. a HP could be an alternative too.

                      They are stable, fanless, gets frequently updates , and uses around 22W.
                      But you get a "Basic L2 switch" … No .1x or SNMP write etc.
                      As a switch in your "main home patch panel" it would prob. be fine.

                      HP 1820-24G (+ 2 SFP ports)
                      https://www.amazon.com/HP-J9980A-1820-24G-SWITCH/dp/B00V32DO7U

                      SX
                      https://www.amazon.com/HP-Mini-GBIC-Gigabit-SX-LC-SFP-J4858C/dp/B000VE4CDQ

                      LX
                      https://www.amazon.com/Hewlett-Packard-ProCurve-J4859C-Gigabit-Transceiver/dp/B000VEB4OG

                      I noticed you have PoE req's, this is also a neat switch (i see it as a cheap C2960CX-8).
                      The HP 2530-8G-Poe+ would be a nice "under the desk" switch too , Fanless , PoE+, serial port , and full CLI  - Ext PSU though.
                      https://www.amazon.com/HP-J9774A-Procurve-Switch-2530-8G-Poe/dp/B00DD66M1E

                      But you can get 2 Dlink's for that price (I got one of these, based on your recommendation)
                      https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Systems-10-Port-including-DGS-1210-10P/dp/B003KJTZYK

                      /Bingo

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                      • jahonixJ Offline
                        jahonix
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                        Did anyone ever hear of or even used an Edge-corE switch? That's the business division of Accton from which you might know the consumer brand SMC.
                        I had an ECS4210-12T switch which is reasonable hardware (8+4 ports) with familiar Cisco-SG-like CLI. Even has an internal PSU, yes! The GUI is lousy though with frames and dividing the 12-port configuration into two pages (10 ports and 2 ports) and still you always have to scroll within the frame. And there's more of such nonsense.

                        I really wonder to which markets Edge-corE sells. They even offer SDN with 100GbE L3 switches which I find impressive. That stuff isn't cheap either so who buys that?

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