Interesting, thank you. I'll add those to the list of possible purchases.
Wireless I could care less about. I'm in a dense area, there are so many APs on the air that you can't hold anything more than a Wireless-G connection. The only reason it has a fiber line is because the AP has some ports on it that feed the area it's in when I have guests and we want to play a game or something. Everyone plugs in.
Yeah,not sure what the other guys problems are. There's zero advantage to getting an expensive newer model switch except to get newer software featuresets or if you need oem support. In 95% of cases there's nothing a $8,000 9300 can do that a $100 3750x won't do. Everything as of 10 years ago is available line rate, non blocking ports. Doing macsec and eigrp? OK maybe you need a more expensive switch. But if you have 250-1000 users or less, then here's example of what I might get
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285078412485
Or
That's similar to what I picked for my previous employer, and they work fine.
I really do need almost 48 ports, I admit I'm strange. I have little ethernet-enabled devices everywhere in the house, and because of the aforementioned wireless issues, chose hardwire if available. Things like the Squeezebox Radio I have here in the main room have wireless, but wired is so much better at keeping a connection.
I think the previous person couldn't (or wouldn't) understand that technologies that were expensive 10 years ago are cheap now, or they just wanted to whine.
Ya. The 48 port version is probably another 30 bucks but look for one that has the c3kx NM 1g installed already.
Some sellers throw in the optic if you message them.
BTW if they ran fiber in your house, if the fiber was aqua or orange you need glc-sx-mm . If they ran yellow fiber you need glc-lh-smd.
Good luck
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