ghafri@alien.topB to Homelab@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agoHow to make this better? Looking for sideways solution and expandabilityalien.topimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageHow to make this better? Looking for sideways solution and expandabilityalien.topghafri@alien.topB to Homelab@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squarelinerror@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoyou’re clients are 1gbe… you can get a brand new unmanaged 24 port gbe switch for $50/£56 a fraction of one of those machines… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenda-Ethernet-Internet-Splitter-TEG1024D/dp/B09DPLVLPY/ -- not to mention you can get a used managed switch for less than half that. if £56 is going to break your bank then get some double sided velcro and clean up your mess. wish you had mentioned your obscenely limited budget…
minus-squareghafri@alien.topOPBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoBudget is not an issue but noise, I sleep next to those machines like between me and them is the table desk u see on the right. So looking at that large switch i think it would have fans and such that would make alot of noise
minus-squarelinerror@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agothe switch I linked to is fanless.
you’re clients are 1gbe… you can get a brand new unmanaged 24 port gbe switch for $50/£56 a fraction of one of those machines… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenda-Ethernet-Internet-Splitter-TEG1024D/dp/B09DPLVLPY/ -- not to mention you can get a used managed switch for less than half that.
if £56 is going to break your bank then get some double sided velcro and clean up your mess. wish you had mentioned your obscenely limited budget…
Budget is not an issue but noise, I sleep next to those machines like between me and them is the table desk u see on the right. So looking at that large switch i think it would have fans and such that would make alot of noise
the switch I linked to is fanless.