While ago I had purchased a dell 3348 off of ebay. It works great. That is what I am using right now. The only problem is, it is a little over kill for my house. The think I hate about it most is how loud it is. It is louder than my furnace I think. So I started to look for something to replace it. I found a Dell 2324. When I got it everything looked fine. After a day of playing around with it and trying to figure out what was up (it is not a managed switch) I finally gave up on it. The person/store I bought from on ebay has refunded the full amount due to it not working. After I got the full refund I set out to find something else. I happened upon a netgear fs728ts. It has 24 10/100 ports and 4 gig ports. Plenty for my home and smaller than the 3348. Just got it last night and set it up. I had a bit of a hard time getting everything I needed to upgrade to the latest firmware but it is all upgraded now. I will post where I found the files needed in a later post. Hopefully it will come in handy for others that run into the same problem I did.
So it is now upgraded and all setup to be monitored with cacti on my network. I just have to get all of the cables plugged in to it and I should be good to go. I will put the 3348 up on ebay and hopefully make the money I spent on it and then some. I really just want to break even. The new netgear switch has no fans. I am happy with it so far. Now to see how it performs.
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