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switch question

Are you having a performance issue? I don't know about the 3com 630s but the 2950s are great. most of them are just EOL so you can pick them up cheap.

reply to CMack
Nope, no performance issues with the 3com-630, I'm one that doesn't like replacing something that is working but if it increases performance than I would look at it. We got hold of 10-2950's, so I have them in the shop but again...no reason to do it unless I new it would help.

Doubtful it will help you.

If your switches are fine now there is no reason to change. In reality, the access points and backhauls will be your primary limiting factor in terms of throughput and pps.
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reply to CMack
That's what I thought Phreak, thanks bud.

reply to CMack
Unless your'e hitting a feature limitation, or actually managing to max out one of your ports and need something faster, I would say that your switches are the last piece of gear that would need an upgrade.

They are usually more capable throughput wise than a router, with most being based on hardware or ASICs these days. Routers still have a while to go in that respect.

Having said that, the 2950's are a really nice switch, we used tons of them in our network. They have all of the features you'd ever want, and more.

Theres even a hardened version that is fan-less, uses convection cooling, is DIN rail mountable, and runs off 24 volts DC. We used a lot of these in one particular network. We had the 12x10/100 and 2x10/100/1000 model, but there are also models with 100mbit single mode fibre based uplinks available too.