Jim_Lafleur
Occasional Visitor
Hi,
I'm new to the world of managed/smart switches.
I'm shopping for a 48 ports 100Mbps switch (with 2 x 1 Gbps ports). I'd like to be able to do Port aggregation / LAG. I'd also like to use VLANS so separate the staff network from the residents network (for a retirement home).
They're both approximately the same price. The TP-Link offering looks very good in theory, but I wonder if those switches are stable/reliable (I don't want to have to go there once a month to reboot a switch). I guess the name Cisco is synonym of reliability.
What would you pick and why? Are they both reliable? Which one is easier to understand or as a more organized GUI?
I'm new to the world of managed/smart switches.
I'm shopping for a 48 ports 100Mbps switch (with 2 x 1 Gbps ports). I'd like to be able to do Port aggregation / LAG. I'd also like to use VLANS so separate the staff network from the residents network (for a retirement home).
They're both approximately the same price. The TP-Link offering looks very good in theory, but I wonder if those switches are stable/reliable (I don't want to have to go there once a month to reboot a switch). I guess the name Cisco is synonym of reliability.
What would you pick and why? Are they both reliable? Which one is easier to understand or as a more organized GUI?
