To be honest, I prefer a switch rather than a switch right now.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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Pretty sure this is gonna be a better investment in future and cannot be bricked by nintendo when they feel like it.
I would have loved that gift as a teenager - I only had a 4port hub, which limited the people I could invite to a LAN party
Poor kid got a hand me down cisco IOS garbage fresh off the legacy rack decommissioning full of old ass Sun SPARC servers.
At least get him something new.
Could be an old photo?
Nah, that doesn’t make him scruffy.
Thought Bubble
"Dad's laughing, but I'm about to host the most epic LAN party of my life"
"Dad's laughing, but I'm pretty sure this thing costs way more than a Nintendo Switch. Now where can I sell it...?"
The electric bill will return the expense to dad.
Just as soon as I get friends...
Dear old Dad is in IT, and he explains that this is a lot more expensive than a nintendo switch.
Only the "license", hardware is cheap
Lucky.
Dad trying to turn his son into a sysadmin
Capitalisation is lost in spoken word. Blame capitalism?
/s
I literally asked for a network switch for my birthday a few days ago. Although it's a 16x sfp+ switch for my home fiber rollout.
I didn't get it because it didn't go on sale and I told my mom not to. Although I suspect she didn't listen to me and got it for Christmas (it's impossible to tell her not to get a present she knows you want, and also to not spend the budget she set aside).
So, now you're waiting till Christmas? Or, will you end up with two of them?
This is getting out of hand!
It's not an immediate need since I don't have a rack installed yet, but it's essential to my planned network architecture.
I still have more fiber runs to pull, and that has to wait till fall.
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“I said I wanted Switch 2!”
“Switch 2? What’s wrong with the first one I gave you?”
I have a couple of 8-port Gigabit Netgear switches that have been working perfectly for about 15 years, now.
I sort-of forget about them. They just work. It's nice.
At least it's a proper Cisco one and not those shitty Linksys/SG ones.
Unfortunately it’s a Cisco one, so there’s probably recurring support costs tied to it.
Got to teach them about support contracts now otherwise Pal Alto will gouge them with their credits system.
Shitty Linksys, a Cisco brand you mean?
Also, Cisco’s list of absolute bonkers vulnerabilities is not a good sign tbh.
They sold Linksys to Belkin ages ago and rebranded the stuff they kept as SG.
TBF even though they have a significant number of vulns, they are at least open about handling them unlike other vendors.
Thanks, I didn’t know. I sort of said goodbye decades ago when linksys was the wifi kit and they got gobbled up.
So you're going to fix the vulnerabilities, right?
...
...right?
That switch predates the switch by quite a while
At least your dad is not black.
This comment confused me until I remembered that Community scene.
Yep , that’s what I meant :)
Wtf.
Are you sure this isn't a scene from a porno?
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Edit: it works now, but what the actual copulation is that
I guess I should provide context for people who haven't watched Community, lol
Well.. today I got educated.
I'm doing NetworkChuck's Summer of CCNA. I know what a switch is now :)
bruh
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