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Michel

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-31

Posts: 286

searching for a switch

Hello,

I'm searching for a switch and maybe some people know one that adheres to what I'm looking for.

* I would like a switch with not too many ports  - 5 or so.
* It has to be of good quality. I was thinking about 3com/smc?-switches ... ? They don't seem to have something that fullfills the requirements, which I'm writing down here.
* It has to be a full gigabit-switch. I was thinking about rolling out a minimum of cat 6-cable. It seems that the shop that I look at from time to time doesn't sell cat 6, but cat 7, so I may choose that.
* It has to support vlans (802.1q?) and priorization (802.1p).
* It would be nice to have POE (803.3af)
* Price around 100 €. If I start buying switches, I probably need more than 1.

It would also be nice if it could report when there is a hardware-failure or so, but that isn't necessary. I think that the cat-6-connectors are gold-plated, not? Maybe that is a nice extra.

I find my list of requirements reasonable ..., but maybe there is not a lot of interest in these items by people? Maybe I' missing some important things, so feel free to add them if you like (of course ).

Thank you and greetings,

Michel