(Part 3) Best products from r/networking

Depending on your level of knowledge:

Networking

Brocade IP Primer I haven't read it myself, but some guys around these parts that I have a lot of respect for recommend it highly for beginners.

CCENT Offical Cert Guide Good next step after above and gets you the CCENT cert which is half the ccna if you pass the test.

CCNA Official Cert Guide Next step after CCENT, gets you CCNA obviously if you pass the test.

If you need to know some basic wireless, I highly recommend the CWTS by CWNP. It is meant more as marketing/sales, but honestly its a really good entry into wifi. You can always follow it up with the CWNA after.

And an always favorite, the network warrior. This book really brings it all together for doing day-to-day networking for a ccna level. I haven't read all of it, but the majority I did read really clarified what I the CCNA brushed over.

As far as Microsoft and other tech's, I highly recommend getting your hands on CBT Nuggets (Yeah, its a bit expensive ~$1000 / year) and just start devouring as much as you can. Watch two or three shows a night? Sub one of them for a CBT nuggets vid. Just devour a few books and some vids and do your best to lab (either in vmware or with gear) and you'll be off to a really great start.

On a political level at work, I'd be fighting for some training (again cbtnuggets or the like) saying, hey tech is always moving forward and you need it to keep up and benefit the company. If you stay hungry you'll do just fine :)

Step 1. Go for the CCENT. It's like half a CCNA, focusing on the basics of networking. The Lammle book is pretty good.
Go to Pearson Vue to register for the test and find a testing center near you.

Step 2. After you have the CCENT, you might be looking at some entry level support jobs. Maybe add A+ and Net+ (pretty straight forward CompTIA certs) and you'd definitely be in the range for a desktop support position.

Step 3. Go for the CCNA. At this point you just have to take the ICND2 exam since you already have the CCENT. Get Packet Tracer, it's a network emulator designed by Cisco specifically for CCNA study.

Step 4. With a CCNA and maybe 6 months of experience in desktop support you might be able to start looking at network support positions. Look at some of the recruiting firms - TEKsystems, Apex Systems etc. Usually it's easier to get a position as a contractor since it's easier for the host company to get rid of you if it doesn't work out and they don't have to worry about benefits or your rights etc. It kinda sucks in some respects, but it's a great way to build a resume and get to know some people.

At this point, you can start to specialize. Maybe go for the CCNA Security if you're into that or go straight for the CCNP. It's a great industry, always stuff to learn, valuable skill set.

I would recommend Platinum tools for all networking gear. They really think this stuff through. The only other company that spends as much engineering hours re-inventing existing products to make the installers job easier is Siemon, but they charge you a lot for it.

These connectors + Strain Reliefs

With this crimper

With this separate stripper

That set will put your RJ-45 termination time to under 2 minutes with just a bit of practice, and under 1 minute after some experience. Even pros that have decades of experience wont be able to touch you with standard connectors.

Why separate stripper? If you terminate a lot, try the thing. All-in-one tools are garbage, you can't make 5 completely different tools work well in one tool, you have to sacrifice. When the separate tools cost a couple bucks, why make any sacrifices? I wish they made one of these for Cat6a, as I have yet to find a decent stripper for it.

Driver set

I would recommend this set, but maybe get it for yourself later as a gift. These cover the most used drivers, and they will outlast you. Stick to cheapos for rare ones unless you want to treat yourself. Wiha is the snap-on of electronics screwdrivers. Except without the payment plan.

Get yourself a cheapo kit for testing cable. All the cheap ones work just fine, as long as it tests the pairs you're generally set. You can even get one to test multiple runs at the same time, just takes a few short patch cables and oddly wired keystones, you can make those from spare parts. If you want something more substantial without spending money, get yourself a pockethernet.

I would stay away from Klein, they just invest quality of materials into age old designs. Yeah they'll last, but they really didn't think about it.

Yeah, for that size you'd be fine with a single AP but I would setup two just because. I've had really good luck with Aruba instant access points and you can pick them up on ebay pretty cheap. Really easy to configure out of the box with a decent GUI. You'd also need a PoE injector or a cheap PoE Switch to power the APs if you dont have one already.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/JW813A-HPE-SEALED-Aruba-Instant-IAP-315-US-802-11n-ac-Access-Point-HPE-renew/263917266733?hash=item3d72b1e72d:g:U4MAAOSwLxpbjsNZ:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true

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https://smile.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Unmanaged-Rackmount-Lifetime-Protection/dp/B07788WK5V/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1551115432&sr=8-3&keywords=gig+poe+switch+hp

Probably the best answer. I would mention that TCP congestion control/avoidance is decoupled from TCP flow control (ensuring available buffers can store received segments). Scaling window because a sender is overwhelming a device is basically sliding the window to advertise what you can buffer. Congestion control is a heuristic to detect congested loss upstream (but not due to link error) and lower the amount of data the sender (on the opposing endpoint) can deliver by reducing the advertised window.

An interesting historical tidbit as best I understand it, TCP congestion control (or what we essentially call congestion control for the Internet) came about because Van Jacobson wanted to implement congestion control at a wide-scale and doing so at the router (using RED) wasn't feasible. It is much easier to modify a host OS TCP/IP stack than modify all routers with intelligence to cope with congestion.

Only recently with Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) are routers actively being involved in congestion control.

This is an interesting read if you want to learn how these protocols were designed the way they are.

I'm a sucker for Prosafe Switches as they carry a lifetime warranty, and the only time I had to use the warranty the switch wasn't made anymore and they sent a new one. But I just noticed the new slimmer one with a cool mount, I really now want to get one to play with for my house. I only have 6 right now, but once my basement is finished there will be 8 more so the 16 looks quite delicious. If you don't want the fancy mount the 16 port managed one is like $78, I currently have the 8 port after I upgraded from the 5 port, they both worked/work great.

VDSL (aka extended reach ethernet) would be the most robust as you don't have midspan unit. I've had great luck with the startech units, these look like carbon copies of those units for $100 less--

https://www.amazon.com/Tupavco-Ethernet-Extender-Kit-Repeater-VDSL/dp/B01BOD8C9W/

Otherwise, PoE powered switch/repeater midspan sounds like the ticket. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Extender-Gigabit-IEEE802-3af-Security-Splitter/dp/B07FMNHYP8

And an injector:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-PoE150S-Injector-Adapter-Compliant/dp/B001PS9E5I

Having something that needs an outlet to plug into halfway just feels half baked. 398 feet I'd roll the dice on forcing 10/100 first to see if it works. I've had gigabit work over longer.

Ubiquiti is your friend. Assuming you have line of sight, a pair of Nanobeam AC units are exactly what you need.

You need a site to site link like that because if you just 'boost the signal', even with a very powerful base station, their mobile devices won't be able to reach back to your very powerful base station. So you put a Nanobeam on your house, another Nanobeam on theirs, and plug their Nanobeam into an access point like the UAP-AC-Lite.

Head First Networking book


Also not a video but a book that puts most of the concepts in a quick to read and easy to understand format. It can come off as a little cheesy but compared to the often boring and over complex books it was a nice review for me and it starts from the basics which too often people skip or gloss over.

If you want to be a good network engineer, understand it from the bottom up, understand from the hardware, to the packet, then to all the routing and rules and so on. Don't be that guy that just knows a few concepts and some troubleshooting tips but never really knows why the tricks work or how the fixes actually work. I give this advice to techs and software devs too, makes you better in every area to know the system from the ground up.

If your devices are truly pushing that much data and you really need 2GB to your computer, you'll need both a switch and a network card that support LACP (Link aggregation).

Most relatively inexpensive prosumer switches support this now, look at something like this for a switch and this for a NIC.

There are, of course, tons of other choices for switches and NICs - just make sure they support what you need.

Generally I go here if I want a good overview and operational view.

TCP, UDP.

If I want to go for the long haul and depth....I start here (I used this list as it's nice and abbreviated of what does what in RFC land). Reading through those will give you a much better idea of how things were "supposed" to work. How they work with a vendor will always be up to interpretation, but the vendors are interpreting those RFCs.

There are quite a few books on Amazon that will teach it to you as well. I honestly would consider getting them too. This, this, this, this.

There's so many good books but those should give you that deep understanding.

I think you only really have two options if running cable is out of the question.

Wireless Network Extender

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Wi-Fi-Range-Extender-EX3700/dp/B00R92CL5E/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1V6VFPS74O1AY&keywords=netgear+wifi+extender&qid=1564151119&s=gateway&sprefix=netgear%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-3

This is what is called a wireless range extender, this on has a outgoing ethernet port on the bottom. Basically, what it will do, is connect to your wireless network, and send out the signal as a secondary wireless signal and/or a wired signal. I use these at my house, and they work great for my needs.

One con is that the connection speed will be slower than a direct connection, or somebody connecting to the originating access point.

Powerline Ethernet

Another thing you can try is powerline Ethernet, I have not used it myself, and do not understand the requirements as well as I would like to yet. I have heard good things about them, however. Basically what it does is use the existing power wires in the building to carry a ethernet signal.

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-PowerLINE-1000-Mbps-Gigabit/dp/B01929ESG6/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=netgear+wireless+to+wired&qid=1564151336&s=gateway&sr=8-6

I would also like to take the time to plug a few resources, if I may, that have greatly assisted me throughout my career.

1. Of course, Cisco Press. Wendell Odom especially.
   
2. Non-Cisco Press, Todd Lamlle's CCNA book is great!
   
3. CBT Nuggets!! Jeremy Cioara and Keith Barker.
   
4. Tech Exams Forums!! For answers to your questions regarding certification, study material, etc, from a variety of vendor certs. Or, to just read motivating success stories!!
   
5. Internetworking Experts (INE!) That link should direct you to their free CCNA video course. If that doesn't work for you, simply register an account with them and search for the CCNA video course.
   
6. Thomas Limoncelli's The Practice of Systems and Network Administration
   
7. Gary A Donahue's Network Warrior
   
8. Jeff Doyle's CCIE Professional Development Routing TCP/IP Vol. 1 or 2
   
9. Douglas E. Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP
   
10. GNS3!! Free Cisco Router and ASA Emulation!! Just make sure you have access to Cisco IOS software!
    
11. Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Computer Networks.
    
12. Jeremy Stretch and PacketLife!! Also, Jeremy's network Cheat Sheets!
    
13. Firewall.cx!!
    
14. Cisco's Command Lookup Tool! Requires login, but nonetheless, a great resource for your Cisco engineers when you just NEED to know how the hell a particular command works.
    
15. Priscilla Oppenheimer's Top-Down Network Design
    
16. I've heard the folks at /r/networking are pretty legit.

Network Algorithmics

BGP Design and Implementation. I brought this on a boat, had drank two very, very large margaritas, and dropped it in the ocean. Re-ordered from Amazon before the boat returned to dock.

Internet Routing Architectures

Now here's the thing to keep in mind: it was 13 years ago when I started getting serious about networking. I'm sure if I was starting now I'd have read/bought probably a third less books, and probably a few different ones. My mantra has always been trying to really understand the foundations of protocols -- a very, very strong mental model. I'd say out of those books up there, Network Algorithmics was the most mentally invigorating. There's another Cisco Press book that goes over IOS and the GSR internals that's also a wonderful (if now a bit outdated) read.

I feel it would be acceptable to use the switch you specified and the AP I mentioned, assuming this is just for casual use. What I mean by that is, I assume the PC and the wireless users are just browsing the web randomly, sending a few emails, doing tweets, browsing Facebook, watching occasional YouTube, etc. If that's the expected usage, it should be fine. If this is an important business operation point (bulk email distribution, hosting of a church web site, live streaming of weekly services, etc.) then you may want to consider a better switch to ensure that it will provide rock solid reliability.

Note that the switch is only 5 ports, and right away you'll be using 3 ports (PC, WAP, connection to main router). For roughly the same price, I have used this model in the past (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001QUA6RA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), and it has 8 ports, so if you ever add another PC or network-enabled-TV in the future, you'll have a few spare ports.

For SSID, yes you want to make it the same properties as what already exists (name, password, authentication type, etc.). The idea would be that people who are connected would automatically connect to the stronger AP when they move around. Understand that the topic of AP selection by the device is a complex topic. Generally speaking it works, but there are subtleties that make it a little finicky. The only thing that should be different on the APs is the channel (the frequency of the wireless transmitter). They want to be different channels, and they each want to be a channel that is not used by a neighbor. See the comments by /u/OfensiveBias.

For IP addresses, this can get deep but I'll keep it brief. There is a public IP address that your router uses to communicate with your internet provider (Cablevision, TimeWarner, Verizon, AT&T, etc.). That address is assigned by the provider, and it will remain as it is. But the network inside the building, like the PC and the WAP, has an IP address in a different range called "private". It will be something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. These addresses are assigned by you (or managed by the router). So the idea is, let's say your router is currently 192.168.1.1, and your PC is 192.168.1.10, and any wireless users are assigned in the range 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.150. You could configure the AP as 192.168.1.5 for example. It will come with a default address, and you need to configure your PC to something in the same range in order to initially connect to it, but then you can change it to match what your church inside network is already using. Once that's done, any wireless devices will simply pass through the access point on their way to the router to the internet.

I didn't intend to provide this much detail, so hope this helps rather than confuses.

I bought a ton of them at a local store, so i can't vouch for the online stores i'm linking to, but here ya go!

They are called "EZ-RJ45"

Connector/Cable End

Crimper

Hope that helps!

Cheers!

EDIT:Amazon.com Link
Crimper (Connectors in suggested items)

Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated!

So would the Router and Switch combination below work together fine? There are a couple of different EdgeRouters and I just want to make sure I buy the correct equipment. Also, and this may be a stupid question, but do you have to buy the POE Edgerouter or would a regular non-POE EdgeRouter work as well?



Equipment

EdgeSwitch:

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeRouter-ER-X-SFP-US-Advanced-Gigabit/dp/B012X45WH6/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464060336&sr=1-7&keywords=ubiquiti+edgerouter+gigabit

If you think a different Edgerouter would be more appropriate, your feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm kind of new to all of this.

EdgeRouter:

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464059733&sr=1-1&keywords=ubiquiti+edgeswitch#Ask

USB hubs do something entirely different than Ethernet hubs do. There are no easy ways to use a USB hub to network computers.

Perhaps what you're looking for is an Ethernet switch instead?

It might be important, depending on how literally you meant "have the same packets sent out each port", to note that while hubs do literally do that, switches (as normally set up) do not.

A hub waits for one of the devices plugged into it to start transmitting; then it repeats exactly what it receives on each other port. For this reason, hubs are always half-duplex (data can only move in one direction at a time, from one source to every other device). (This causes some performance issues related related to collisions, sort of like when you and somebody else keep trying to talk and then stopping when you hear the other person.)

Switches, on the other hand, do something called MAC learning; when traffic arrives, they look at the sender (sort of like glancing at the upper-left corner of an envelope) and remember which of their ports that sender is connected to. Then, when they see traffic being sent to that device, they only have to send it out the one port. This process of receiving a packet and sending it only towards its destination is called forwarding.

You'll notice that there's a chicken-and-egg problem here: what do they do with a message (packet) if they haven't seen the destination address before? Well, they fall back to doing what hubs do: they send the packet out each other port, which is called flooding (as opposed to forwarding).

If you really need this behavior, there are nicer switches (on the order of $200 or $300) that would let you either disable MAC learning (thus always flooding every packet, similar to what a hub would do).

If you can be more specific about exactly what you're trying to achieve, maybe we can be more helpful!

Thanks for the reply!

A friend who is starting (and subsequently has got me thinking about this) said he was planning on taking a class and testing for the Network+ before going for his ICND as that will be a nice way to ease into it and build up to the CCNA/CCNP stuff. I figure as I'm more or less starting from scratch here, it might be a path that would be suited for me as well. Thoughts?

Also, I've heard someone mention this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Networking-Simplified-2nd-Edition/dp/1587201992

Can't tell by the reviews whether this would help me or not. Seems to be a nice overview with general terms, but maybe I'd be better off looking ito the meat and potatoes of the actual Cisco stuff?

If you really want in-depth knowledge, I would go with TCP/IP Illustrated. It has recently been updated and pretty much covers the gamut of all things networking.

If that looks a little too daunting, you can go with a CCENT book (Lammle and Odom tend to be the best writers, IMO). It does cover Cisco products, but the concepts in it are primarily vendor neutral. Hope that helps.

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)

Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 (5th Edition)

TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition)

are the three 'vendor neutral' books that are recommended by INE as resources for all CCIE tracts.



Cisco CCIE book list contains the following:

Other Publications

Cisco Documentation

Configuring IPv6 for Cisco IOS (Edgar Parenti, Jr., Eric Knnip, Brian Browne, Syngress, ISBN# 1928994849)

Interconnections: Bridges & Routers, Second Edition (Perlman, Addison Wesley, ISBN# 0201634481)

"Internetworking Technology Overview" Available through Cisco Store under doc # DOC-785777

Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (4th Edition)
(Comer, Prentice Hall, ISBN# 0130183806)

IPv6: Theory, Protocol, and Practice, 2nd Edition (Pete Loshin, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN# 1558608109)

LAN Protocol Handbook (Miller, M&T Press, ISBN# 1558510990 )
Routing In the Internet (2nd Edition) (Huitema, Prentice Hall, ISBN# 0130226475)

TCP/IP Illustrated: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Stevens/Wright, Addison Wesley, ISBN# 0201633469, 020163354X, 0201634953)



edit1:
I own the first three and recommend them for vendor neutral network engineering books, with Perlman's book being the best switching book I've personally ever read.


edit2:
also I find wikipedia articles on computer related topics to be top shelf. I would recommend many of the references and papers referenced in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory
article.

I think the ERL might be my best bet with IPSec. 100Mbps sounds good enough. Although I do have a question about the ERL. On the ubiquiti website link the model sold looks different from the one on amazon link . Would I be fine with getting the one on amazon?

Though already stated, I thought I would re-iterate to further solidfy:

• Full mesh for iBGP is an absolute must unless you use next-hop-self
  
• source from lo0 (loopback). This will increase redundancy and resiliency in case of a failure. Be sure to advertise lo0 via an IGP (OSPF or EIGRP. I personally prefer OSPF)
  
• Route reflection is so, so much easier than forcing each peer to peer with the other
  
  Here is a nice basic paper on BGP:
  
  https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~badri/552dir/papers/bgp/BGP-Case-Studies.pdf
  
  Here is another book I would highly recommend, though, it is far more advanced and technically not geared towards a beginner:
  BGP Design and Implementation by Zhang and Bartel

Read (and try to understand):
[Ethernet fundamentals!]
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565926609/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
[Internetworking with TCP/IP!]
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131876716/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Both are good books and essential reading for anyone working in networks (if you want to be any good at it)...

Cisco Networking Simplified from Cisco Press is networking fun for the whole family.

(No but seriously, I can't emphasize enough how amazing this book is)

If you want something a bit more business class (and to save some money) look into a Ubiquity AP and edge router.

Those two will likely be a bit more flexible than the RT-AC3200. Also, if you decide that you need another AP, you can pick one up and get away with simply running another wire.

Great question. I give the same answer to everyone. THIS is the book: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Networking-Simplified-2nd-Edition/dp/1587201992

It's a wonder that anyone can get into Cisco certs by jumping in the deep end. Read this thing, seriously. Don't overwhelm yourself. Take it slow. Re-read chapters. If you get through that, or most of that, and you're digging it, then start looking into CCNA material after.

The updated version is already released. Look up the 100-101 and 200-101 exams if you want to take them in 2 parts or the 200-120 exam if you want to take it all at once.

The two-part books that cover everything:

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-CCENT-ICND1-100-101-Official/dp/1587143852/

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Routing-Switching-200-101-Official/dp/1587143739/

You probably don't need to build up a lab if you're going to stop at CCNA. Cisco's Packet Tracer is included with the books and you can use GNS3 to virtualize routers to practice on. That said, if you'd like the hands-on experience, feel free to grab hardware from ebay. Decent stuff to go with:

• Layer 2 switch: 2950
  
• Layer 3 switch: 3550/3650 emi
  
• Router: everyone has an opinion on this one.
  
  Of course, check /r/ccna

Check out vyos or Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite. Both are great platforms based on vyatta.

This is closer to a home networking topic because of the low complexity but I don't mind helping.

1. Don't get EdgeRouter X. The EdgeRouter Lite is quite a bit better and only costs a bit more.
   
   
2. Your bottleneck is most likely the wireless routers you have currently. Neither is suitable for running 40 devices and even 20 can be pushing their limits once you have just a few clients streaming video.
   
   Put your modem into bridge mode and have the N66-U running as the router. Turn off the wireless. Get a UniFi AC Lite AP, place it up high and wire it into the router.
   
   If you have extra money get another access point and then an EdgeRouter Lite 3.
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Enterprise-System-UAP-AC-LITE-US/dp/B015PR20GY
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Edgerouter-Router-ERLITE-3/dp/B00HXT8EKE
   
   

You might consider going with 3 8 port switches, as it might be a little cheaper, but you will be giving up 3 ports to connect them to the router. Here's a link to one that costs $30. Most 24 gigabit switches are over $100. And when you buy a gigabit switch, remember that some of them will say they are gigabit simply because they have a couple of gigabit ports.

You can make almost anything POE powered with one of these...

5 to 12vdc...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PS9E5I

or...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MOIDXZ0

So long as you have a DC powered POE switch, then everything else can be POE off of that.

or 24v: https://www.amazon.com/Splitter-Ubiquiti-Mikrotik-Switches-WT-AF-24v15w/dp/B01BE5UL4Y

We even run the lights in our cabinets (LED strips) off of POE to 12v adapters, stays on when the power's out :)

That's effectively a two port switch that is powered over PoE. Stick it in the middle somewhere. There are many brands/types though.

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https://www.amazon.com/Extender-Gigabit-IEEE802-3af-Security-Splitter/dp/B07FMNHYP8

Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 1

Read it cover to cover. It's an easy read.

> I'm very new to BGP, and there's not a lot of information out there on this topic.

That is absolutely not true, there are tons and tons of information available regarding proper BGP configuration and design :

BGP Design and Implementation
Internet Routing Architecture
Practical BGP
Network Warrior 2

You should really try to understand BGP if you want to optimize your peering. Maybe look at getting someone with BGP experience onboard your project.

I liked this one. http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Networking-Al-Anderson/dp/0596521553

Yup, the EdgeRouter Lite will handle dual-WAN no problem, and can do so with hardware offload to get gigabit-range speeds. Hands down the best value for a low-end router.

You could look into a 24-port Ubiquiti Edgeswitch. It will do POE and they are pretty simple to work with but have a full range of features.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2

We just re-did our company network and we bought this 3 pack of Ubiquiti Access points

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UAP-AC-3-Enterprise-System/dp/B00E46Y8ZE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1409684343&sr=8-4&keywords=ubiquiti+3+pack

We also got the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite


http://www.amazon.com/EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-512MB-Ethernet-Router/dp/B00CPRVF5K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409684392&sr=8-1&keywords=ubiquiti+edgerouter+lite


We're in a ~7000sq ft poured concrete building and they have been rock solid.

from a person that deploys netgear's for shoretel...do NOT use them...the web based gui is terrible. You might get away with finding one of the higher end ones with telnet but man...I have had nothing but trouble with them. I'm trying to push to have them replaced with ubiquity switches.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2

This is what I want.

Repeaters suck, don't waste your money you'll just have more headaches. You need to run a cable from the router closer to your room or in your room and setup an access point there. Something like this

Patterns in Network Architecture by John Day.

Here are some links for the product in the above comment for different countries:

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Networking-Simplified-2nd-Edition/dp/1587201992


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|UK|amazon.co.uk|
|Spain|amazon.es|
|France|amazon.fr|
|Germany|amazon.de|
|Japan|amazon.co.jp|
|Canada|amazon.ca|
|Italy|amazon.it|
|China|amazon.cn|




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$13 used on Amazon

After further searching this subreddit...would this setup work:

Modem --> Router --> PoE Switch --> 3 AP's spread throughout the shop, all broadcasting the same SSID and Password for seamless/smart transitioning.

The other commentors are giving solid recommendations. To complement their higher-end suggestions I'll toss out a couple of options at the lower range since you're upgrading from equipment that was End Of Sale in early 2006 and End Of Support in early 2011. I'm assuming your client may be price sensitive since they're fine using a basic feature set on a 100mbps switch model that has been highly derided in the industry as a faulty platform.

For the cheapest option I know of that doesn't sacrifice quality, I'll suggest the TP-Link SG3424 -- 24 gigabit ports, LAG/LACP support, 4 SFP ports, physical console port for CLI access (very IOS-like interface and command structure), remote access via SSH and Telnet, and a simple-but-effective web config option via HTTP and HTTPS. I have used these frequently as an alternative to Cisco/etc for price-sensitive customers including nonprofits, small businesses, and education environments with no issues over the past 3-5 years. Price: $250 on Amazon Prime -- http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SG3424-Pure-Gigabit-Bandwidth-Management/dp/B005B7YVCK/ Its brother, the SG3424P provides the same features along with PoE on all 24 ports for $500.

Another low-budget switch I see highly recommended but haven't tried personally is the Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-24-250W. The tradeoffs compared to the SG3424 are: no physical console port, higher price ($400 vs. $250), and fewer SFP ports (2 vs. 4). http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2/

Because it's an unmanaged switch. An unmanaged switch is the last resort; I'd rather use a shitty repeater than that. There are also the issues with cheap, managed switches that I talked about earlier.