[tech] Switches

[Duncan Sargeant]

Grahame Bowland wrote on Wed September 13, at 15:30 +0800:
> Last night at the committee meeting we talked about equipping
> ourselves with 10/100Mb switches so that we have an entirely 100Mb
> internal network.  Having the clubroom on a switch rather than a hub
> would also improve speed even if most things only do 10Mb -
> especially with all that X traffic.
> 
> Does anybody know a good source for dumb but useful 10/100 switches? 
> Something like the D-Link switch we already have.  The idea is to
> buy four or five switches (eight ports each) and chain them
> together.

Back the truck up a minute, we already one switch which should take care
of any server machines which need it, so how did you jump from the
reasoning of needing another switch to handle the few machines which
necessarily do network graphics  to the conclusion that we need to spend
$1000 in switches to improve the network?

,dunc