[olug] [OT] Small Office Switch Recomendation

[Hurley Rod]

On our low-end stuff, we switched from procurve to 3com as well.  Have
had a few issues with 3com, but not many, considering the low cost.
Can't say I would go back to procurve unless I had a pretty good reason.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Craig Wolf
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:47 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] [OT] Small Office Switch Recomendation

Before we (Millard Public Schools) started buying 3Com switches, we
talked to Metro Community College about the HP ProCurve switches.  Since
we are an HP shop for computers, they had our ear for the switches.  MCC
had a lot of problems with the switches not performing what was needed
(I think they were billed as Layer 3 switches but the Layer 3 stuff
never worked right).  HP ended up replacing all the switches with a
different model that functioned better but...

This is 4 year old knowledge from a person that worked there during that
time.  I am sure HP has fixed things but personally, I am not willing to
put my customer on the "should work" line.  HP has NEVER come back to us
pitching their switches again since that time also...makes me wonder if
they did fix anything.

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-715-6283
>>> Irish <irish.masms at gmail.com> 10/23/08 11:36 PM >>>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> I have been real happy with the Netgear Switches, not the SOHO ones
but the business lines.  I will NEVER get caught using the HP Procurve
switches, not after seeing what MCC went through with HP!
[snipped]

Craig - can you elaborate regarding your "seeing what MCC went through
with HP" statement?





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