OT: TP-Link gigabit managed switch

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:44:08PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> Minor correction.  It has 24 10/100 port and 2 10/100/1000 ports.  These
>> last two can be either copper or fibre, via SFP modules.  The two
>> gigabit ports would normally be used for stacking.  I have done some
>> installations, where there would be a few switches similar to this and
>> the gigabit ports are used to connect each of the switches to a 24 port
>> gigabit switch.
>>     
>
> I don't think you can do copper with SFP modules.  The hole lookes too small.
>
>   
You can get copper SFP modules, but they're more expensive than the
fibre ones and there's generally not much need for them.  Regardless, I
wasn't implying you'd use SFP for copper.

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