Cisco Catalyst 2960-24PC-L - switch - 24 ports

Advantages: Excellent quality. loads of features, easy to install
Disadvantages: None

...Netgear are well known for their networking equipment and it is for this reason I want to tell you about a great piece of kit. The 24 port switch. 24 ports of networking capability.... But what does that all mean??? Ok, let me tell you about what a network is. Even the internet is just one big network. it is simply just a collection of computers that are connected together and can communicate. Simple! But, how do you connect them together? Its not like they shake hands and have a chat is it? Well in a way, that is what they are doing but using some extra hardware to do this. To put a computer on a network, it needs a Network interface card or NIC. This plugs into your computer's motherboard. Its basically similar to installing a graphics card or sound card. You then need to connect the computer via the NIC card... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use, easy to install
Disadvantages: closeness of the ports.

...Netgear are well known for their networking equipment and it is for this reason I want to tell you about a great piece of kit. The 24 port switch. 24 ports of networking capability.... But what does that all mean??? Ok, let me tell you about what a network is. Even the internet is just one big network. it is simply just a collection of computers that are connected together and can communicate. Simple! But, how do you connect them together? Its not like they shake hands and have a chat is it? Well in a way, that is what they are doing but using some extra hardware to do this. To put a computer on a network, it needs a Network interface card or NIC. This plugs into your computer's motherboard. Its basically similar to installing a graphics card or sound card. You then need to connect the computer via the NIC card... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable, functional and cheap, easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...flow between one computer to another. A hub and a switch basically perform the functions of a set of traffic lights on your network. A switch is normally used in a larger office and connected directly to your servers via an uplink cable. Then all of the desktop users are plugged into the switch itself to access the server resources. Clearer? Good! So when it came time to install our new network early last year, the Netgear catalogue was the first and only place I was going to look. Reason being? For our network requirements, Netgear was going to provide everytihng we needed. Reliability, 100mbps network support, good price and easy to understand and install. There are others on the market such as Cisco but these were more than double the price as they are tailored more towards companies requiring high volume networks... Read review

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