Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by levifig 1146 days ago
Same boat here. Care to share what switch you ended up landing on? I'm still searching… :'(
1 comments

They all have issues but the worst issues I ran into were on the TrendNet switches. The NIC's would start to get into carrier reset loops or sometimes would reset with no predictable pattern. I225-V + Trendnet seem to amplify each others bugs. Those switches also have problems with the I219-V. I threw those switches away.

The TP-Link and Netgear switches had the least issues for me in that I only had to force a particular speed to avoid sometimes negotiating at 100mb. I am not sure people will notice the negotiating bugs unless their family are heavy bandwidth users. I noticed it because of streaming and gaming at the same time plus I shut down my machines at night so I have a coin-flip chance of negotiating incorrectly every day.