Home Streaming Network

[scmeis1]

Hi All,
I have been using smallnetbuilder for a long long time. I am gifted when it comes to Cisco and Cisco Wireless. I design them for a living, but I am a bit outside my comfort zone when it comes to home products.

Currently I own 3 Negear gs108t-100NAS switches with a Netgear FVS336G SSL VPN router and Dlink 825 wireless router.

I have tried for days to get this lan to work. The 3 biggest things it needs to do are:

1) Stream HI-def movies to any one of my big screen Tv's. I have Intel Dual NIC's that are teamed on every HTPC I have, and the Movie Storage server.

2) I own a CCIE lab, and use it from other places, and let friends use it.

3) I have Uverse, and I run it through my Switches.


ISSUES: the Netgear switches I own now, constantly drop traffic. That is fine for the internet, I am fine with Best effort prioritizing. The TV's constantly lock up. I have tried every combo of 100/Full, 1000/full, auto/auto, DSCP, flow control, nothing has solved the TV's from freezing.

I have heard there is an issue with the latest firmware on the gs108T-100NAS switches and when VLAN's are added it causes them issues.


Ok - What I need is to upgrade the switches. The SSL VPN firewall rocks, just fantastic piece of equipment. The DLINK-825 wireless router kicks butt too. I bought after reviewing it on here.

1) I want on 12-16 port main switch
2) 4x (5-8 port) switches.
3) All must be able to handle VLAN's, and trunking (802.1q)
4) Spanning-tree (802.1d, or 802.1w) are fine.
5) SFP based is not something I would consider at the moment. The SFP's are usually more expensive then the switch.
6) Gig would be nice, but in a home LAN, you do not see the benefits of that throughput.

I wish I could use my 3550's or 3560's but they are necessary in my CCIE lab.

Thank you in advance!

 

[00Roush]

Not sure if it will help or not but I recall someone on a newegg review mentioning you need to ground the GS108T switches to ensure no problems. I will say that I have a GS108T switch and in the last few months have had to reset it once or twice due to network errors. Haven't tried grounding it yet though.

00Roush

 

[thiggins]

Can you try the 3550's or 3560 temporarily to see if they solve your problem?

I have a GS108T (f/w 3.0.4.10) and it has never given me a problem. I don't use any of its managed features, though.

 

[scmeis1]

Can you try the 3550's or 3560 temporarily to see if they solve your problem?

I have a GS108T (f/w 3.0.4.10) and it has never given me a problem. I don't use any of its managed features, though.

Honestly, that's over kill for a home network, as well as very expensive. The 6 I have are in my CCIE LAB. I actually went with dell powerconnect's. They work great, and I have not had an issue at all.


I reintroduced the gs108t, same issue. I have now found out many people have that issue when vlans are introduced. Netgear is using my wireshark sniff's to solve it. However, I will be of no use to them any more, I sold that stuff.

Thank you!