D-Link Switch Issue
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D-Links are "throw away" switches. Other than power-cycling them from time to time, if they have a problem you throw them out and buy a new one. There really is nothing that you can do to "repair" switches. They are not serviceable devices.
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I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
Agreed. Netgear has a lifetime warranty on their business products, so unless it's not covered under that and no external warranty is held, I agree. Toss it and replace it.
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The same goes for HP Procurves, Lifetime warranty.
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@Dashrender said:
The same goes for HP Procurves, Lifetime warranty.
Yup. I thought so but I couldn't remember definitively.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
Agreed. Netgear has a lifetime warranty on their business products, so unless it's not covered under that and no external warranty is held, I agree. Toss it and replace it.
It's important to note that a lifetime warranty is a legal term that refers to the products life time. which is generally considered to be 3-5 years.
I personally stay away from anything with a Netgear logo. I'd have nothing but issues out of their products.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
Agreed. Netgear has a lifetime warranty on their business products, so unless it's not covered under that and no external warranty is held, I agree. Toss it and replace it.
It's important to note that a lifetime warranty is a legal term that refers to the products life time. which is generally considered to be 3-5 years.
I personally stay away from anything with a Netgear logo. I'd have nothing but issues out of their products.
Quite odd. Both @scottalanmiller and I swear by them as a rule.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
Agreed. Netgear has a lifetime warranty on their business products, so unless it's not covered under that and no external warranty is held, I agree. Toss it and replace it.
It's important to note that a lifetime warranty is a legal term that refers to the products life time. which is generally considered to be 3-5 years.
I personally stay away from anything with a Netgear logo. I'd have nothing but issues out of their products.
And life the product is as long as it lasts. So even if it's 10-15 years old, it should still technically be covered. But I can't confirm that for 100% as I've never had a piece of equipment that old...
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and would think no one would want to run the same switch for 15 years...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
and would think no one would want to run the same switch for 15 years...
You would be surprised... I pulled an old 10Mb hub out of a ceiling at my last job... turned out it had been up there and running since the original network was installed. We had been trying to diagnose why a section of ethernet was only reading 10Mb and couldn't figure it out until we traced the wire.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I agree with Scott. They are throwaway devices. Get something decent like a Netgear or even an HP Procurve.
Those are better, but important to recognize that they are throwaway devices too once not under warranty. Switches, as a product category, have to be fixed by the vendor. IT people can't fix them.
Agreed. Netgear has a lifetime warranty on their business products, so unless it's not covered under that and no external warranty is held, I agree. Toss it and replace it.
It's important to note that a lifetime warranty is a legal term that refers to the products life time. which is generally considered to be 3-5 years.
I personally stay away from anything with a Netgear logo. I'd have nothing but issues out of their products.
I have several of the business class Netgear switches in production. They are working great.
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@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
and would think no one would want to run the same switch for 15 years...
You would be surprised... I pulled an old 10Mb hub out of a ceiling at my last job... turned out it had been up there and running since the original network was installed. We had been trying to diagnose why a section of ethernet was only reading 10Mb and couldn't figure it out until we traced the wire.
Yeah, true. Still, I would hope that with the decreasing cost of technology that this would become less and less common.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
And life the product is as long as it lasts.
No that's not true. The lifetime is a legal term based on expected life of electronics. which is generally interpreted as 3-5 years.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Yeah, true. Still, I would hope that with the decreasing cost of technology that this would become less and less common.
Why replace something that's not broke?
Look at @scottalanmiller computer. Now that he's moved he's probably not using the 7+ year desktop he was, but, he was using a 7+ year old desktop... granted it had a RAM upgrade and an SSD installed, but otherwise did everything he needed it to.
Same goes for switches.
The current HP Procurve switches in my environment where installed when I started full time here back in Sept 2007, 7.5 years ago. The same goes for my wireless controller and APs.
FYI, these are all on the request to get replaced list for better performance, etc.
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@Dashrender said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Yeah, true. Still, I would hope that with the decreasing cost of technology that this would become less and less common.
Why replace something that's not broke?
Look at @scottalanmiller computer. Now that he's moved he's probably not using the 7+ year desktop he was, but, he was using a 7+ year old desktop... granted it had a RAM upgrade and an SSD installed, but otherwise did everything he needed it to.
Same goes for switches.
The current HP Procurve switches in my environment where installed when I started full time here back in Sept 2007, 7.5 years ago. The same goes for my wireless controller and APs.
FYI, these are all on the request to get replaced list for better performance, etc.
No I agree. If it's sufficient for your needs and works well, there is no need to replace it. However, a good hardware refresh cycle is a good thing to have. Workstations every maybe 3 or usually 5 years, and I'm not sure what would be considered best practice for networking equipment. It's not that you HAVE to, but making sure you have equipment that hasn't EOL'ed, etc, is good.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
And life the product is as long as it lasts. So even if it's 10-15 years old, it should still technically be covered. But I can't confirm that for 100% as I've never had a piece of equipment that old...
Pretty sure that they don't define it that way.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
and would think no one would want to run the same switch for 15 years...
Lots of people want to. Not IT people, but people.
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@coliver said:
I have several of the business class Netgear switches in production. They are working great.
That's pretty much all that we buy. Sure, they fail more often than say a Cisco or Juniper. But I can replace each ten times for the cost of one Cisco and the Netgear is easier to manage and faster performing for that price. And they don't fail ten times during a switch lifespan, they fail far less than once. We've had one fail, I think, but even that I'm not sure about. Most are still kicking long past their usable lifespans.
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@Dashrender said:
Look at @scottalanmiller computer. Now that he's moved he's probably not using the 7+ year desktop he was, but, he was using a 7+ year old desktop... granted it had a RAM upgrade and an SSD installed, but otherwise did everything he needed it to.
It was literally the last thing that I broke down and stuffed in the closet before leaving Texas. Six hours before I moved to Spain I was still on that desktop and when I return to Texas that desktop will be what I used this summer (I'm there for several weeks.) It's getting close to ready to retire, but with us traveling it will get an extra six months or so that it would not have gotten
That thing is a tank.
