DEAD ** Dell 2608 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch - 8 port now $49 AR

[ECartman]

Here's the link:


Dell Gigabit Switches

This beats last weeks deal on this. This is approaching 10/100 switch prices.

 

[dman]

Wow, that's tempting... but I will resist.

 

[ebaycj]

Jumbo Frames?

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: ebaycj
Jumbo Frames?

I answered my first question, It appears its using THIS Chipset, which doesn't support jumbo frames.

 

[linuxthinker]

Eh, the consumer nature of this switch makes it no better than a 10/100 switch. Shrug.

 

[ECartman]

I got one last week. I have a noticeable increase in transferring large video files from my SC400SC. Gotta have a 10/100/1000 NIC of course.

 

[Vegito]

wow.. how these came down.. i think i still go my receipt for this 2 years ago at 400+...

 

[htne]

I cannot find the rebate for this. Any idea where to find it, and what the dates are?

Thanks.

 

[ECartman]

the rebate shows up on your invoice, you use the generic form like you do with a system.

Follow the link for rebate forms ... the trick is to use the DELL system rebate form (look at rebate details...the "system" rebate form is good for DELL branded peripherals)

Dell rebates are good as long as it shows up online and prints on your system details sheet when you put it in your cart. Dell has a rep of changing the terms often and without warning. As long as it shows on your system details (a little blue link right under the item in your cart) you are golden

 

[trikster2]

hmmmm.

Gig ether on all the new intel motherboards 915, 925 etc are based on the marvel chipset.

I wonder if they'll get better performance with this marvel based swittch?

 

[cheesehead]

Is it possible to network two switches together? I.E. connecting two eight-port routers to form one 14-port router?

 

[STotaro]

yes, you used to have to use a crossover cable but these should autosense i believe.

although router is not the correct word here, its a switch

 

[toant103]

hot hot

 

[cremefilled]

Cheesehead, yes, as mentioned, a crossover cable will do this -- and many switches have a dipswitch setting to allow a normal cable to interconnect. However, you are greatly limiting the performance of the two switches, as compared to a single 16-port.

As an example, an 8-port 100 Mbps switch has 1600 Mbps of possible bandwidth -- 8 X 100 X 2 [duplex]. But any data going between two switches is funneled through the same two ports, and you will also get frequent collisions, as each datasource has to "wait its turn" to use that funneled port. If dataports are frequently communicating across the switches, performace will rapidly (even exponentially) degrade.

 

[rmrfhomeoops]

Originally posted by: cremefilled
Cheesehead, yes, as mentioned, a crossover cable will do this -- and many switches have a dipswitch setting to allow a normal cable to interconnect. However, you are greatly limiting the performance of the two switches, as compared to a single 16-port.

As an example, an 8-port 100 Mbps switch has 1600 Mbps of possible bandwidth -- 8 X 100 X 2 [duplex]. But any data going between two switches is funneled through the same two ports, and you will also get frequent collisions, as each datasource has to "wait its turn" to use that funneled port. If dataports are frequently communicating across the switches, performace will rapidly (even exponentially) degrade.

Most switches now have autosensing if it's a switch or a NIC that connects at the end of the straight-through cable. Using cross-over is optional.

BTW, it's $84 after $50 MIR for a 16 ports switch.

The only advantage to cascading a switch is you have a computers that are clustered in two places. Then using two switches will allow you to use just one long cable between these two switches. Oh yeah, cascading switches also increase latency too (between the client on two different switches).

 

[MixMastaMM]

FYI:

PowerConnect 3324 and 3348 managed switches have not yet been approved by the Federal Communications Commission for use in a residential environment. These devices are not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased for use in a residential environment until the approval of the FCC has been obtained.


Found that to be a little weird

 

[dman]

Nice price. Any idea what kind of sustained xfer performance someone can expect with these?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: MixMastaMM
FYI:
PowerConnect 3324 and 3348 managed switches have not yet been approved by the Federal Communications Commission for use in a residential environment. These devices are not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased for use in a residential environment until the approval of the FCC has been obtained.

They are probably only qualified for the less-stringent "FCC Class A" certification, which is generally for business/industrial use, not residential. Not sure what the exact differences are.

 

[extracrispy]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: ebaycj
Jumbo Frames?

I answered my first question, It appears its using THIS Chipset, which doesn't support jumbo frames.

How important is that on a gig switch? I've been wanting to buy one for a while but have heard they're not all the same maybe this is what people were talking about.

 

[psxjunky]

Great find ! Thanks OP. Got one myself. Other similar (decent) 8-port Gb switches are around $90-100 shipped at Newegg.

Also, not sure if this was mentioned before, but right now there is FREE SHIPPING on the 8 port switch as well.

My final price will be $52 and change.

 

[samyboy]

super deal if you need one. thanks.

 

[ECartman]

Fry's had gigabit NIC cards for $9.99 this week also. Picked one of them up and put it in my workstation. Now with my Dell 400SC server (which has Gigabit ethernet) and this gig switch and gig card in my workstation I did some tests. Took 4 min 37 sec to transfer a large .mpg movie I had with my old 10/100 switch. With this gigabit setup same movie transfered in 3 mins flat. Not the increase I was expecting but about a 33% increase in speed nonetheless. I'm happy with the setup.

 

[Tweakmeister]

KILLER DEAL!!!

Last time these were on special the 2616 was still over $1xx and was a "bargain"

These are rackable btw.

Limit 5

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: cremefilled
Cheesehead, yes, as mentioned, a crossover cable will do this -- and many switches have a dipswitch setting to allow a normal cable to interconnect. However, you are greatly limiting the performance of the two switches, as compared to a single 16-port.

As an example, an 8-port 100 Mbps switch has 1600 Mbps of possible bandwidth -- 8 X 100 X 2 [duplex]. But any data going between two switches is funneled through the same two ports, and you will also get frequent collisions, as each datasource has to "wait its turn" to use that funneled port. If dataports are frequently communicating across the switches, performace will rapidly (even exponentially) degrade.

ALL gigabit switches autosense. It's part of the spec for gigabit, there are no dipswitches or anything. Straight or crossover between two switches will cascade them.

And all ports have the full bandwidth. The only penalty is a totally immesurable amount of latency, and if multiple people are accessing across the switches at any one given time. However, most computers are only capable of saturating less than half the full bandwidth, because of hard drive speed, so it's only an issue if you have three or more people asking for full sustained banwidth at exactly the same time, a pretty rare case. In this case, if you have a single file server, you're STILL limited by only one port if you have a 16 port switch, (the port going to the file server) so the difference in the case of having only one server of cascaded vs. not cascaded is negligible in all but the most complex home environments.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: ECartman
Fry's had gigabit NIC cards for $9.99 this week also. Picked one of them up and put it in my workstation. Now with my Dell 400SC server (which has Gigabit ethernet) and this gig switch and gig card in my workstation I did some tests. Took 4 min 37 sec to transfer a large .mpg movie I had with my old 10/100 switch. With this gigabit setup same movie transfered in 3 mins flat. Not the increase I was expecting but about a 33% increase in speed nonetheless. I'm happy with the setup.

Hmmm... I was thinking about getting one of these but after reading your post I'm not sure I need it. If it was a significant increase in speed I'd probably do it but to me 33% isn't worth it. I mean, you can always use a crossover cable between 2 gigabit NIC's and it's only the cost of the cable.

Thanks for posting your results ECartman.