Recent content by coleygm

I hear that a lot. I'm juust so used to Cisco, i stick with it...but always open to others?

I use the Cisco SG 200-08 (Gigabit 8 port) which cost less than $100. It has port mirroring ability along with a hose of other features.

Great stuff...and you definitly make me rethink the swtich portion. if we went to the 200 series of managed smart switches we could just create the vlan's we'd need so every unit would be on it's own ip if i'm thinking of it right. regarding bandwidth, yes that is something we've mulled...

gotcha...and great advice. As for the routers, yes we plan on having two routers at both points of origin from Charter...then switches cascaded from there. The personal routers within the residence should would take care of individual device addressing per residence then and our routers...

Thanks for the response...I'm not worried about the ISP as I've clarified with our rep and there shouldn't be any issues in those regards. Regarding your thoughts on the technical networking setup though, I definitely understand the part about isolating users, but this would come in at...

hey...thanks for the thoughts. In our case, we'd be running Business Class service via Charter and I double checked with our rep today. They said there are no limits and they could care less who or how many people use the internet transmission. They bring us the line, and what we do with it...

16port Smart Switch = Cisco SG200-18 As for the Cat6 cabeling, buy it in bulk yourself from Amazon (500 or 100ft spools)...you'll save a ton. Ask your contractor what the cost is for the cable upfront, and then see what you can get it for. That way you'll know he took that cost off your bill...

If all your PC's are doing is accessing the internet, then I'd just stay with the hookup you have. Your ISP is giving you 12Mbps, and your routing/switching equipment can handle 100Mbps...hence you'd see no benefit moving to gigabit equipment. Now if your exchanging data within your network...

Hello...and thanks in advance as I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I am helping a condo assoc that has 84 units comprised in 11 separate buildings that wants to put an Ethernet jack in every unit so residents can simply plug in (or plug in their own router) and surf the...