[PLUG] Small network managed switch?

[Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.]

Thanks for all the excellent responses.

My customer has been using some Ubiquity wifi access points and thinks 
they are great. The ES-24-LITE-US EdgeSwitch found favor with them so 
that's what we'll be trying.

I checked with the Ubiquity supplier and they said that HTML 4 or 
greater Java script are all that we will need to access through the web 
interface.

Again, thanks for all the excellent responses.

Wayne

On 11/16/2015 10:06 AM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> On 11/16/15 09:13, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
>>
>>> One member of the family that owns the plant also owns some sort of a
>>> business computing consulting or services company. He wishes that I had
>>> used a managed switch so he could know how busy my network was and I don't
>>> know what else a managed switch would tell him.
>> Wayne,
>>
>>     Because I knew nothing about managed switches I looked up the term on the
>> Web and learned the benefits they can provide over an unmanaged switch. The
>> article (on eHow, I believe it was) suggested using a smart switch. Those
>> apparently do most of what a managed switch does but at a much lower price.
> I believe there was a time when some of these so-called smart switches
> used Windows-specific software for configuration.  It looks like they
> have now moved to web interfaces, but that's definitely something I
> would confirm before purchasing.
>
>
> galen