A Minor Upgrade: Switch and Battery

2021-01-25 13 min read Behind the scenes Hardware Networking Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

See also: managing to mildly destroy a network for 5 minutes while the switch has an anxious breakdown. Unfortunately, my reliable Dell PowerConnect switch has, well… it failed (kinda), and I was looking for an excuse to upgrade switches, so… I did. Admittedly, my impressions of Netgear kit aren’t the highest, but, hey, this switch is actually stupidly good for the price (I paid).

Oh, yeah, I also replaced the UPS since the entire network was offline anyways.