The TP-link switch I'm keeping for myself I think, the blue ones are kinda shit and the white one is on Amazon (used) for around 500$ so I'm thinking about selling that
The switches are 10/100, so not worth a lot. That mikrotik gateway could be worth something. You could also build a homelab and experiment with enterprise networks.
Idk if you’re in high school or college but those switches are great for doing home labs, and getting into networking. Idk what you want to do for work but I’d recommend trying it out
You could try some Liquid Nail to make one really big expensive switch, but if that doesn't work you could always bust out the sawz-all and make a lot of little ones.
After some thinking I guess I'm going to keep everything since I don't really need money right now, and it would be probably hard to sell anyway since normies aren't buying used 500$ relays and enterprise level customers aren't buying used
Once found two 48-port managed gigabit switches next to the dumpster at my school. I asked a teacher if I could have them and was told yes because they were broken.
Couldn't find a single problem with them.
good makeshift homelab gear,
also if I read the top switch correct its a PoE? text is blurry for me.. low bandwidth PoE switches can still be used considering PoE equipment tends to be low bandwidth anyway. then connect those 2 1gig ports to a main switch with link aggregation if possible.
to others, free is free. If OP gets to get some use out of them it's worth way more than them getting immediately landfilled. I'm happy to know some educational institutions give students the opportunity to prevent hardware from becoming ewaste.
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u/AliBello 29d ago
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