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Dai · 23-09-2008, 20:18

Scenario: SBS 2003 small office. Currently a dozen users, probably will expand to 15 plus a few networked printers/plotters over the next few months.

They currently have a Nortel Baystack 325-24T switch which links everything back to base.
Now this baby only does 10/100 so it has become the limiting factor in achieving gigabit speeds and is the bottleneck in the system.

I'm looking at gigabit *unmanaged* switches such as the netgear JGS524. My question is basically to do with me not fully understanding the difference between managed and unmanaged.

Fot a small-scale operation such as this, where I only have a simple network to consider, would I be shooting myself in the foot somehow by opting for an unmanaged device?

23-09-2008, 20:18	#1
Dai Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lincoln UK Age: 76 Services: 50Mb, TV & Phone Posts: 3,673	Switches - managed or whatever? Scenario: SBS 2003 small office. Currently a dozen users, probably will expand to 15 plus a few networked printers/plotters over the next few months. They currently have a Nortel Baystack 325-24T switch which links everything back to base. Now this baby only does 10/100 so it has become the limiting factor in achieving gigabit speeds and is the bottleneck in the system. I'm looking at gigabit unmanaged switches such as the netgear JGS524. My question is basically to do with me not fully understanding the difference between managed and unmanaged. Fot a small-scale operation such as this, where I only have a simple network to consider, would I be shooting myself in the foot somehow by opting for an unmanaged device?