<html><head></head><body>Wow! That's a load. Thanks for helping!!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 19, 2020 11:03:18 AM EST, neal@mnopltd.com wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Thanks for the reply.<br><br>On 2020-12-19 09:52, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Please don't take offense but I find a church needing a technology<br>upgrade ironic.<br></blockquote><br>Ironic because our pre-school has been running, providing distance <br>learning to children of health-care workers and teachers and other <br>essential workers, so that we've got 20-30 Zoom sessions running over <br>our 200Mbit Comcast service?<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I am not a Cisco fan. Netgear is plenty sufficient. They have several<br>models with PoE in a variety of port counts and run about 1/2 the co$t<br>of cisco.<br></blockquote><br>Yeah, I'm not wedded to Cisco. I like(d) the port testing capabilities, <br>when they actually worked.<br><br>Model numbers for netgear? Is there a distributor you like for refurbs?<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Oh. There's probably a failed battery causing the date problem.<br></blockquote><br>Yeah, I thought about that. It's an old switch. I don't intend to even <br>breath on it until it's on the bench and another switch is working. <br>Maybe an firmware update would help, but again, not jumping of a cliff <br>with that parachute.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Noise will persist with PoE thanks to higher heat loading. For some<br>setups it's cheaper to PoE power injectors for the endpoints than use<br>full PoE switches.<br></blockquote><br>The existing switch has POE turned on for all ports, although it's only <br>apparently sending power on about 6.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On December 19, 2020 10:39:14 AM EST, Neal Rhodes via Ale<br><ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Our church has two Cisco SGE2010P 48 port 10/100/1000 POE switches.<br><br>They have become increasingly dodgy as they are actually needing<br>them<br>MORE. (Streaming services, all the telephones are Polycom SIP<br>phones,<br>schools program is offering distance learning for kids downstairs on<br><br>Zoom, etc)<br><br>We really need to replace one or both. 24 ports would actually be<br>plenty, and these things are freakin' loud. Like having a constant<br>vacuum cleaner in the office.<br><br>Much of the LAN wiring is historic, meaning terminated by hand, and<br>not<br>up to spec for gigabit. So, having diagnostic testing of all the<br>ports<br>and cables is essential. We've already identified a couple of<br>franken-cable runs and replaced them.<br><br>BUT, after a power-cycle last night, the good news is Speedtest<br>results<br>went from 4mbps down to 90mbps down. The bad news is the office<br>switch<br>lost all ability to test cables, forgot what time it was, and no<br>longer<br>properly reports port status. And in spite of a power cycle, it<br>insists<br>its been up for 11 days. I no longer trust it.<br><br>We need to buy a decent, quiet(er) Preferably Cisco 24 port POE<br>switch<br>('cause all the phone-sets need POE) which doesn't need to be<br>enterprised managed, BUT does need to have port/cable testing.<br>Refurb<br>would be just fine. It's a church, and we're on a budget.<br><br>Any opinions on models AND good sources for refurbs?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Neal<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><br>--<br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>