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Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap gigabit switch? I'm starting to outgrow my WRT54GL router.

Anthony Giorgio
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    Are you looking for a router with a gigabit switch integrated into it or just a switch? – Joseph Jul 01 '09 at 12:01
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    I'd say this was Sysadmin related – David Pashley Jul 01 '09 at 13:00
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    Why was this closed? It seems a sensible question. Anyhow I recommend the Belkin entry level switches. After all Dell rebadge them and sell them as PowerConnects! I have several and if you just want a simple unmanaged switch they are perfect. – John Rennie Jul 01 '09 at 13:17
  • This seems like a fine question to me... – jj33 Jul 01 '09 at 13:36
  • I cannot even remotely recommend anything related to Dell PowerConnects. I came up with a "brick the PowerConnect" procedure that involved actually using some of the webadmin settings. After denying it for months and then looking at it for months, Dell quietly decided to not fix the problem. – kmarsh Jul 01 '09 at 13:40
  • Why did this get closed? It's a simple question that people were willing to answer and it seems enough sysadmin-related to be valid. Geez. – Justin Bennett Jul 01 '09 at 13:45
  • Voted to reopen, I agree with the above, this is a valid question. – Adam Gibbins Jul 01 '09 at 19:54

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I assume this is a home or small-office arrangement as you are currently using a consumer AP+Switch like the WRT54GL, in which just about any switch would do aside from some of the dirt cheap imports. At home I have a simple 5 port netgear gigabit switch and it works without fault at speeds that suggest my machines are the bottleneck not the switch.

Such a switch should connect to your router as an uplink device, essentially extending it rather than replacing it.

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You can get a TP Link TL-SG1005D 5 port Gigabyte switch for around US$35.

http://www.tplink.com/products/product_des.asp?id=69

Jon Rhoades
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