Will my stuff work???

5/13/2014 10:23:06 PM

yes...though it seems easier to try instead of making a thread.

5/13/2014 10:27:49 PM

The main switch goes to a router.

5/13/2014 10:42:47 PM

Make sure to use the uplink port if your switch is an old one an has a specific uplink port.

5/13/2014 11:19:16 PM

Can it work? Yes
Will it work? Maybe

5/14/2014 12:22:37 AM

don't forget this

5/14/2014 3:37:19 PM

I went to TigerDirect to get one of those and they said they did not carry them.

5/14/2014 4:26:20 PM

I have a story.

Last sunday night I was on call for my org (customer crisis management) and I get a call from the tech support duty manager. A hospital was experiencing a total network outage and they claimed that 2 patients had died as a result of doctors not being able to access electronic medical records.

of course, being married to a doc who works in a hospital, i knew the claim was complete bullshit. but once they utter those words I've got to set a lot of processes in motion to respond (get legal, PR, call certain execs, etc.).

About 3a.m. they get the network back up and running again. the cause of the failure? someone in the pharmacy plugged an IP phone's voice and data ports into a netgear switch, and plugged that switch into the wall jack, causing a bridging loop.

and yes, that brought down the entire network because they have multiple single points of failure, a generally poor design, and an unwillingness to enable basic edge port features that would have detected the problem and shut down the port before it did any harm.

5/19/2014 12:21:17 PM

lol

5/19/2014 12:22:55 PM

^^a guy at work did something similar, except he bridged two isolated networks, but twice. Everything fell to its knees.

5/19/2014 7:43:33 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156066

I just ordered this, I hope it works.

5/23/2014 11:10:14 AM

10/100? What is this the 90's? Get a gigabit one. Otherwise your shits going to be sloooowwww.

5/23/2014 11:56:05 AM

See that is another question I have, the cable that runs to my ATT router which is on a different floor has the light on for "100m" instead of "1000m" which to me says I am not going to get any faster than that anyway, right?

Does the ATT 2wire router support gigabit speeds?

5/23/2014 12:12:28 PM

You would see faster than 100Mb throughput between any device that was connected to the same gigabit switch, but you'd be limited by the 2wire if you had any devices plugged in to those switch ports. Even if you have U-Verse, I doubt you'll get anything over 100+ to the world any time in the next year or two so it doesn't really matter unless you're streaming to a media center PC or transferring large files between two or more computers on your network.

5/23/2014 12:26:10 PM

ATT caps your speed at whatever you pay for, unlike TWC which the speed you are paying for is the worst and you usually get way faster. :/

5/23/2014 12:33:49 PM

Monday I was running sound for the board meeting at work, so I wasn't in the office. We have a lot of networked gear in our office and not a lot of network drops, so years ago networking gave us a little old Linksys 6-port unmanaged switch, which has a couple monitoring PCs, the printer and my desktop Tandberg unit running through it. While I and the other senior tech were out the newest guy decided to clean up some. He did a great job, but he freaked out when he couldn't print something at the end of the day. So he started plugging in network cables on the switch. He got the printer to work, so he left at 4:00.

Tuesday morning I come in and the networking guy is sending shitty emails and standing in our office asking WTF is going on with my VTC unit. Of course I said sorry I was offsite yesterday and have no clue but the switch traffic LEDs looked weird to me. The port that the Linksys was plugged into went bat shit crazy and sent the switch in the closet to 99% CPU activity, so networking killed the whole port and called our network guy at home to ask him WTF was going on. Networking guy blames the shitty unmanaged switch and tells me to yank it. While I'm unplugging it I realize that one cable was plugged into port 2 and port 6. First n00b coworker says it wasn't, but when I show him the fucking cable he says, "Yea so whats the big deal?"

Needless to say n00b is now known as "Loopback" and now more educated on how a broadcast storm can occur.

[Edited on May 24, 2014 at 8:23 PM. Reason : ]

5/24/2014 8:22:51 PM

unmanaged switches will get you fired at my job if you bring them in. keeps it real. add blades, run the drops.

[Edited on May 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM. Reason : ss]

5/24/2014 10:28:51 PM

^^Should I post loopback.jpg?

5/24/2014 11:02:34 PM

Quote :

"See that is another question I have, the cable that runs to my ATT router which is on a different floor has the light on for "100m" instead of "1000m" which to me says I am not going to get any faster than that anyway, right? Does the ATT 2wire router support gigabit speeds?"

Yeah doesn't really matter if it's 100m to your modem as you're probably not getting speeds close to that. Intranet though you probably want 1000m as transferring files between devices is going to be slooooooowwwww (think 10-12 megabytes per second).

If you don't really transfer files between devices (moving photos, videos, streaming from devices) then don't worry about it but if you care just make sure all your cables are cat 5e or 6 and your switch is gigabit compatible.

5/26/2014 2:46:10 PM

I've been lazy as hell through the years and have added unmanaged 6-8 port switches at legacy stores that were wired before I got involved and suggested futureproofing. I've never taken down a network with broadcast storm, but occasionally a switch will get added without my knowledge and will be the point of failure for a group of devices.

I know I have a loop somewhere at one of the offices because managed switch lights are seizure inducing and synced blink, but there's 200+ drops as well as SFP fiber interconnects and I'm just like STP do your thing. It definitely irks me, but more pressing issues on the task list right now. wtb network contractor I can just say "Fix this".

6/7/2014 11:27:13 AM

Lighning burnt up port 7 and the computer it was plugged in to. (Only port 7 though the other ones work)

This thread no longer applicable LOL.

6/7/2014 4:18:10 PM

yay for fiber?

6/7/2014 10:43:46 PM

The line coming in to feed Uverse is an old fashioned telephone line.

6/7/2014 11:47:05 PM