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    First EasyMesh Certified Product Is Out. It's An Extender

    @Razor512 you can find the specifications at WifiAlliance. I really hope this gets momentum with the Wi-Fi Routers and AP manufactures - imagine being able to simply add any Easy-mesh supporting AP where you need coverage - and you can potentially keep the "hot spots" in the house on the latest...
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    Airplay showing up slowly on Wifi and iphone dropping

    I'm actually experiencing the same things. Very often my Airplay devices are not discovered by my iPhone. I have the SG300 switch as well but didn't have these airplay issues until I switched out my old Netgear WNDAP360 Access-Point with two new Zyxel 1123-AC AP's. I'm wondering if maybe the...
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    Managed switches - reliable & inexpensive, possible?

    Good post by spinkham - I agree with his choice of low-end equipment. I can based on personal experience (got a couple of them myself) recommend the Cisco SG300 series as well as the Netgear GS108Tv2 - like spinkham said, they are running very mature and feature rich firmware. I work for a...
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    using managed switches, instead of layer2 switches for storage network?

    I'm actually just unpacking a Netgear ProSafe switch at this very minute - They include a rather confusing diagram of all their switches grouping them like you descriped. It's all just marketing terms though - and yeah I tend to agree they ignore the fact that all switches operate at layer 2 of...
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    using managed switches, instead of layer2 switches for storage network?

    I'm pretty confused by your post - All switches are Layer 2 devices (som with added L3 funtionality - commonly known as L3 switches) A managed switch can do anything an unmanaged switch can - but typically offers 'enterprise' features like vlans, snmp, spanning tree etc.. I would NEVER use...
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