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It's basically a power strip:
but specifically for cables that carry Internet traffic instead of electrical power.
A more direct analogy would be a telephone switchboard (which is why it is called a "switch"), basically a computerized version of those old-timey operator ladies who used to sit in a room waiting for you to make a phone call, and they'd physically move a plug connected to your phone and plug it directly into the phone line of whoever you were trying to call. That, but for computers trying to talk to one another over network cables instead of making telephone calls.
From my basic understanding (literally just setting up my home Internet) it turns one Ethernet from the router into like 20 different connections for each computer or device
Keep in mind that I literally have no experience and can only give you the Wikipedia but I can't make sense it except for laughing at the word 'GigaSwitch'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch
No, he clearly wanted a Nintendo Switch.
I actually did desperately want that Nintendo Switch in, oh, '89 or '90? I was living in Germany at the time and my RF switch cord got severed. This was the dark ages before the internet, so the only option was to order one and wait a month or so for it to arrive. That was a long month!
But dad, I wanted the 10gbps model with sfp+ Fiber support!!!
Hon, you don’t even use the 1gbps we have at home.
That’s not the point having a larger bandwidth on the server end removes bottlenecks to multiple simultaneous clients!
You kids with your new words, that’s Skibidi toilet Ohio Rizz alright.
I'm happy with my Gigabit Switch with 4 SFP modules :3
(Got that two months too early for christmas tho)
i would be happy. switches can cost a fortune, and this is for a rack so why so sad?
"What do you mean you can't play games with it, son? When I had this in high school, I got invited to every LAN party and got free drinks."
if he were smart; he would sell that switch and buy several switches. lol
Old Cisco gear shows up in the thrift shops here. I think you can't even give 10/100 kit away.
how could you tell it was a 10/100... or even a cisco switch?
it looks more like an old small plane dell powerconnect to me.
This picture has been jpeg-ified so many times that the details are illegible now
I'm pretty sure it was a Cisco if I'm not mistaken, but I could be remembering wrong
it might as well be since they're all black pizza boxes with holes. lol
I didn't. It just looks like the fair number of Cisco (and the occasional Dell) 10/100/sometimes Gigabit switches I've seen in junk shops.
I bought a nifty blue Netgear 24-port one mostly because I'm more willing to buy junk from the Humane Society shop, but then decided it was too loud (40mm fans) and went to 2.5G (with smaller fanless switches) instead.
I bought a nifty blue Netgear 24-port one mostly because I’m more willing to buy junk from the Humane Society shop, but then decided it was too loud (40mm fans) and went to 2.5G (with smaller fanless switches) instead.
i used to marvel at people at people who setup racks in their own home with those LOUD blades because my time racking & stacking in all the data centers have lead to permanent hearing damage so seeing these people bring that into their home is wild to me.
What if it were 10/100 Gb/s ?
But what speeds are we talking? Like gb and does it got POE???
1GB is so 2010s. Now it's all about 10GB
Can probably play Doom
I’ll take that off your hands there buddy
At least that switch is fast.