My phones seem to drop out every now and again, I have narrowed it down to my switch, I have used local poe and swapped phones around it apears the faults are port-related on the switch. I have been looking at switch's and they seem to range from £200 to £2k does anyone have a recomendation?

is this a managed switch ?

 

 

I dont think it needs to be, the one Im using now is but apart from setting it up to begin withIve never done any other managing.My Sme server does all that

I have a old HP Poe switch,  J8164a purchased of ebay for couple of hundred quid yrs ago, HP is used by one of my bigger clients who have a proper IT team.

My only issue is java support for web browsers

 

Unless cheap tat I'd guess your ports are prioritised, yours droping off may be the total load of the switch is too high & its closes down ports to keep other open ?

 

 

 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123380932600

 

These work good for me , as good as 8ways you gave me , but obviously have the gigabit uplinks

Edited December 3, 20187 yr by al-yeti

Cisco HP Netgear Draytek...

I'd expect to be looking around 230 for a Netgear without fibre ports more for the others.

If it doesn't need any features then Netgear would do, most are managed at that size.

I believe the netgear units have a lifetime warranty, the ones we have fitted have been very reliable

Mine is currently Netgear but its old, I have another so I could just swap it over. But again its old, Amazon have some Netgears @around £198.00 there is a Cisco 2960G WS-C2960G-48TC-L  on ebay new for £120.00

 

26 minutes ago, PeterJames said:

Mine is currently Netgear but its old, I have another so I could just swap it over. But again its old, Amazon have some Netgears @around £198.00 there is a Cisco 2960G WS-C2960G-48TC-L  on ebay new for £120.00

 

All of them can be switched to unmanaged if you know how to use them