[olug] [OT] Small Office Switch Recomendation

[Irish]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> Before we (Millard Public Schools) started buying 3Com switches, we talked to Metro Community College about the HP ProCurve switches.  Since we are an HP shop for computers, they had our ear for the switches.  MCC had a lot of problems with the switches not performing what was needed (I think they were billed as Layer 3 switches but the Layer 3 stuff never worked right).  HP ended up replacing all the switches with a different model that functioned better but...
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> This is 4 year old knowledge from a person that worked there during that time.  I am sure HP has fixed things but personally, I am not willing to put my customer on the "should work" line.  HP has NEVER come back to us pitching their switches again since that time also...makes me wonder if they did fix anything.

As Rod also mentioned, I was wondering what issues you have had with
3Com - the places that used 3Com were not that impressed either.

Craig - thank you for the info on HP ProCurve. After my experience
with their interview process, I am not impressed either.

Tim