Network switches

[Badaz52]

Just wondered what the general opinion on brand of network switches is? we use HP and although the warranties are good, support and honesty of products I find to be bad. We bought a load of 1810-48G switches and even after all the firmware updates they still sometimes lose port connectivity and have to be restarted.

 

I know they are at a low price point hence why we ended up with them but I'm aware that quality probably slipped when they aquired 3com.

 

What do you find to be the best brand? ideally I'd use Cisco but they cost way too much!

[Michael]

I've started to deploy Ubiquiti Unifi APs and switches; plus very reasonably priced (including modules), offering 10Gb backbone on 48 port switches. The manageability of these are infinitely better than HP or Cisco (and it's free).

[fiza]

I've started to deploy Ubiquiti Unifi APs and switches; plus very reasonably priced (including modules), offering 10Gb backbone on 48 port switches. The manageability of these are infinitely better than HP or Cisco (and it's free).

Which APs did you have previously?

Do you know if Ubiquiti switches play nicely with HP switches? Our core is HP so not looking to change that but need to upgrade the edge switches.

[Michael]

Lots of different makes, but yes, I have that combo running too HP switches + Unifi UAP-AC-Pro and works with PoE/PoE+ Other models are similar, but do not use PoE, so I generally avoid. I'd rather use an industry standard such as PoE, which 'should' work with any other PoE/PoE+ switch.

[Blue_Cookeh]

Juniper core, HP/Aruba access, UniFi wireless.

 

No problems here!

[AlanD]

Really surprised to hear of switches "losing" ports - and needing to restart switches - especially from HP that I would regard as a brand that is big enough to want to protect its name. We have seen this kind of behaviour with netgear - which perhaps as a reputation for being budget will not be so surprising to some. However with dozens of switches in place over a large campus I can't say it happens as often as once a year. Nearly always there has been some physical problem with the cabling/sockets/plugs and an error count on that port in the logs until that problem is fixed (usually recrimping or reterminating the ends)....so I'd be interested to know if find its the SAME ports which tend to stop working...and whether you take a look at the logs/packet error status. But we have had the odd PC with a network socket that stops working and had to use a pci card...so ports can fail.

[Katy]

Really surprised to hear of switches "losing" ports

 

We're mostly HP 1910 edge switches, occasionally we'd get a PC just not doing anything on the network, fix is to move it to another port. But then if we moved a different PC into the "faulty" port, it works. Very odd.

[AlanD]

We're mostly HP 1910 edge switches, occasionally we'd get a PC just not doing anything on the network, fix is to move it to another port. But then if we moved a different PC into the "faulty" port, it works. Very odd.

 

No; I think this is exactly how its supposed to work. The switch gets a load of bad packets from a client and decides the best thing to do is isolate traffic that that MAC address on that port. Moving another PC to that port allows it work fine...as does moving the original PC to another port. But ...you won't have "fixed" the problem - which is likely to reoccur - and will either have moved with the PC. Taking note of whether you physically moved the PC - or used different sockets, patches should allow you to isolate what the problem is.

[Priscilla110]

Why not considering a white box switches? The same quality at a much lower quality.

[ricki]

Loosing port connection is not usual are you sure you don't have a virus or malware on a device or a bad nice. The other thing to check is the wiring. We had a contractor who used an apprentice who wired some ports wrong Richard