Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing?

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing?
Date	2016-12-02 19:24 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrno43im7.i77.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
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  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2016-12-02, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> wrote:
>> I'm about to buy a gigabit Ethernet switch for my home network. I can
>> get one with either a plastic case or a metal one.  The metal one is
>> about twice the price.

> They aren't actually the same model, though, right? The older models do
> tend to be more expensive than newer ones.

>> Is there any significant benefit to the metal case? I presume it helps
>> protect against RF interference, but is that normally a problem?

> Doubt interference would matter, but metal is more durable than plastic.

>> (The metal case has the LED indicators next to the ports, whereas the
>> plastic one has the LEDs on the front and the ports on the back. I
>> don't really care either way.)
>>
>> Here's the Amazon link to what I'm considering:
>>
>><https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KFD0SYK>
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.

> I've had a Netgear GS608 running at home 24/7 for the past 8 years
> without issue:

> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007SQEPU>

> I've used the both the newer white plastic and the older blue metal
> Netgear switches (many different models), and haven't noticed any real
> difference between them other than the obvious ruggedness of the
> all-metal units, which doesn't really matter much considering switches
> don't get physically handled all that often.

I swapped all my cheap switches for Netgear "ProSAFE" switches.

The biggest difference I've noticed is that machines do not randomly stop
seeing the LAN and I never have to reboot the switches.

But I have dozens of devices on my LAN, and cheapo switches really only
seem cheapo when you have a lot of traffic.


-- 
I think I found your marbles.

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?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2016-12-02 13:11 -0500
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-02 19:16 +0000
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-02 19:24 +0000
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2016-12-04 21:10 -0500
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2016-12-02 20:45 +0100
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-02 16:35 -0500
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-12-02 22:14 -0700
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 09:06 -0500
      Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-03 15:02 +0000
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 09:11 -0500
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Snit <usenet@insanity.com> - 2016-12-03 15:47 -0700
      Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 18:20 -0500
        Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-12-03 17:06 -0700
  Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-12-05 09:11 -0800
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-05 16:06 -0500
      Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-12-06 10:54 -0800
        Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-06 14:02 -0500
        Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-06 19:04 -0500
    Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-12-06 16:51 -0700
      Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-06 19:09 -0500
        Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-12-06 17:15 -0700
          Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-06 19:18 -0500
            Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-12-06 17:26 -0700
              Re: ?Plastic or Metal Ethernet Swith Housing? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-06 20:26 -0500

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