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- Jan 13, 2005
alright now that I have a some what decent job making several bucks and hour more and getting an actual factual 40 hours per week, unlike my last job at hellmart, I am able to finally finish or in this case start a lot of the projects around the house.
one of those is wire up the house since I am not a fan of wireless.....at all. if I could plug my phone into the wired network I would.
I figure a 24 port would be a good starting point, I don't have a big house but I may be running to out lying buildings too. I am thinking 5 ports in the living room 2 in one bedroom 2 or possibly more in another with my computer and game collection, 1 in the kitchen, 2 in the laundry room (printer + ???) and then 2 more in the garage. possibly 2 more out to an out building, that's another project and depending on how bad it is it might just get torn down but as I say, projects.
any way I felt 24 ports would be a good start and leave some room if we decided to add to the house.
I don't really have many requirements other than I want all ports to be gigabit and preferably IPv6 compatible. As far as price well cheaper the better of course, I've been looking at business surplus new and used.
I was considering an Allied Telesis AT-9924TL-EMC2 but I cant find much about the EMC2 variant, just the regular 9924T here: https://www.alliedtelesis.com/products/switches/9924t
this was business surplus NOS for about $50 (or best offer). after some digging I found some dell networking stuff that uses EMC as part of their branding so I don't know if its an OS used between the 2 or if theres some sort of management tech they share or if dell absorbed a branch of another company and it overlapping a bit.
I thought I would ask if any one had any other ideas of a gigabit switch I could get or if this was decent enough for home use
i'm not sure what to do for a firewall yet. I am fairly certain I have everything else though, got the crimp and punchdown tools, cable ends, and I some how wound up with one of these: https://www.cableorganizer.com/computer-cabinets/kendall-howard-racks/kh-security-cabinet.html
one of those is wire up the house since I am not a fan of wireless.....at all. if I could plug my phone into the wired network I would.
I figure a 24 port would be a good starting point, I don't have a big house but I may be running to out lying buildings too. I am thinking 5 ports in the living room 2 in one bedroom 2 or possibly more in another with my computer and game collection, 1 in the kitchen, 2 in the laundry room (printer + ???) and then 2 more in the garage. possibly 2 more out to an out building, that's another project and depending on how bad it is it might just get torn down but as I say, projects.
any way I felt 24 ports would be a good start and leave some room if we decided to add to the house.
I don't really have many requirements other than I want all ports to be gigabit and preferably IPv6 compatible. As far as price well cheaper the better of course, I've been looking at business surplus new and used.
I was considering an Allied Telesis AT-9924TL-EMC2 but I cant find much about the EMC2 variant, just the regular 9924T here: https://www.alliedtelesis.com/products/switches/9924t
this was business surplus NOS for about $50 (or best offer). after some digging I found some dell networking stuff that uses EMC as part of their branding so I don't know if its an OS used between the 2 or if theres some sort of management tech they share or if dell absorbed a branch of another company and it overlapping a bit.
I thought I would ask if any one had any other ideas of a gigabit switch I could get or if this was decent enough for home use
i'm not sure what to do for a firewall yet. I am fairly certain I have everything else though, got the crimp and punchdown tools, cable ends, and I some how wound up with one of these: https://www.cableorganizer.com/computer-cabinets/kendall-howard-racks/kh-security-cabinet.html