wuench said:I have Cisco 300-10's and they work great. Ton's of features like SNMP, Span/Port Monitor, excellent throughput, can play my bluray video with no issues. (Not POE). But I do not consider the Cisco 300 class switches "Linksys Crap". They are not the same as the consumer linksys switches.
Can someone please answer this question if they have experience with it? My whole network is gigabit and I am spec-ing out my POE network. Do I NEED gig there or I should be fine with 10/100 for the camera stuff. And I am talking 1MP+ cameras (Dahua mid range comes to mind)...how much is their traffic and how chatty does the network get if you have a couple (6-10) of these!dgage said:General question related to the Nortel 24 port 10/100 POE switch. Is a 10/100 switch good enough or should it have a gigabit uplink? I know a few cameras wouldn't be bad but is there a concern with many HD cameras on a 10/100 switch?
Specifically it looks like the Nortel 460 has a bay for a gigabit uplink but the ones available on eBay today are $250 by themselves, not including the under $100 POE switch.