Work we have the VM superhub fed into a Draytek router which connects to Netgear gig switches which in turn expand into dlink gig or 10/100 switches. As it is all unmanaged there are no issues with different branding.
At many of our NTHW lan parties we use a mix of netgear 8 port gigabit and TPlink 8 port gigabit routers connected to either cable or ADSL routers. Being critical the netgear stuff is a bit older and sometimes doesn't autodetect the port speed correctly but once up and running we've pushed terabits of leeched stuff over the LAN network, in only 24 hours, with no issues.
The point is that brand is irrelevant, as quas not quite so nicely said it. But look at the quality of the switch as even unmanaged some are better than others (and that isn't necessarily price the TP link were cheaper than netgear), especially for the backplane bandwidth ie. amount of data they will handle switching between ports before saturation.
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Originally Posted by chrispuk2004
I've have had that exact switch running for over 2 years in my house. Am I an idiot?
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Probably not, I think quas was being a bit blunt at the ability to mix and match brands in an unmanaged network.
However, you must be very advanced intelligence for your age (3 according to your profile), to be needing a switched computer network
