[BC] LAN weirdness

[Rick Heil]

Hey Tom,

I'd highly suggest going to eBay and grabbing a gently used 3com SuperStack, the SuperStack 3 is a great model and they can be had for about $40-$50 or so. We use SuperStacks on our campus for all our final mile up the pipes into the residence hall rooms. They don't do gigabit, only 10/100, but they're rock solid and can be managed if you want to get into that. I've had one working in my home network for quite a while now and haven't had any problems with it.

I'd also look into what Richard mentioned regarding there being a bad ground somewhere - things without wall warts are probably better off. 

HTH,
Rick
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com> wrote:

>Very simple network--
>16 port low-end Cisco switch--six computers connected to it, as well
>as small router & cable modem for internet.

>The switch "locked up"--no activity indicated on the LED's on the
>front panel, network down.  Unfortunately, the way the automation is
>set-up, the on-air and voice-track machine need to talk to each other
>or the whole system freezes up.

>Unplugging the switch brought it back to life, but the strange thing
>is this is not the first time this happened--but with an entirely
>different switch!

>The first switch we had in this network was a "no-name" 24 port unit.
>Literally no-name--there is no logo or other id on the box--the PD got
>it from an advertiser as a great deal.  When it started doing this
>"freeze" number I bought the low-end Cisco switch.

>Switch, router, and cable modem all on UPS.

>Looking for solutions that don't require eye of newt, and toe of frog.
>Howlet's wings are available locally, though...