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perfect for those cold winter nights!

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Not PoE+ so no autonegotiation. I’ll never fuck with passive poe switches again it is such a headache.

Do you really need 48 ports? That things gonna consume a lot of power even while idle.

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What is the autonegociation you’re talking about here ? I never owned a POE switch, I, of course, don’t need all the port, it was the cheapest POE switch I could find near me, everything else is like 250€ or more, or 150 for unmanagable. It won’t be ON often for the moment, I just wanted a POE switch to have fun with wifi AP and in the futur IP cameras!

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Autonegotiation allows two devices, such as switches or network interface cards, to automatically exchange information about their capabilities and configure the best possible connection settings, like speed and duplex mode. This enables devices to establish a link with optimal settings for both. Without it, this needs to be done manually

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Not PoE+ so no autonegotiation

Yeah I already knew what autonego is, but this bit I didn’t understand, why POE/POE+ would affect auto nego ?

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That switch does it with CDP.

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I wrote a big thing about what I meant but this switch seems to have 802.11af so I may be wrong. Instead here’s a couple links to explain PoE better than I can

https://community.fs.com/blog/poe-switch-types.html

https://www.netgear.com/hub/business/network/active-or-passive/

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4 points

In this case the 3750G is a standards based PSE using 802.3af. It should not have any issues powering modern network equipment up to 15.4W

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9 points

Yess! New community discovered! :)

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What do you guys even use these big switches for?

I feel like I have a pretty comprehensive setup but I have 10 ports hooked up of my 12 port switch, 1 for every major room in the house(5), 2 for my office and 2 for the servers and one for input. And honestly I only use 2 room ones so I have 3 that go unused.

I can’t imagine the level of insanity that would require 48 ports for home use.

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3 points

lan party 🎉

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Those 3750Gs are beasts though! Fully L3 capable, and every feature you could possibly want in a switch from 2008. For my final project in college I actually used one of those as my core switch and pushed it to the max using it for redundancy, routing, etc. and it just shrugged as I was simply using it for what it was built for

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They would use 10 ports, and have 38 port redundancy, lol.

No, the real reason would probably be to have like 20 security cameras.

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Well… I have a few servers, that all have 2 port minimum (they actually all have 5 ethernets) (IPMI and Normal Ethernet) that’s already 10 port, plus my Desktop, plus the link nto the router, plus storage management of a JBOD (2 ports) that’s already 14 ports, and then I want to do stuff with POE Rasberry Pis (or similar) and I also have a few AP that I can now try and have fun with! I won’t use the 48 ports, but 24 ports were more expensives where I live… so, I took this one!

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7 points

But why?

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Homelabbing isn’t about WHY. It’s about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our homelabbing is overkill? Why not marry safe labbing if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won’t hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.

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Lol but seriously though, what you hooking up to 48 ethernet ports? I can barely use 10

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See my other comments ahah

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