So at my work we are looking to lower our phone bill by moving to VoIP, and we would need a switch that has PoE in order to power the VoIP phones. All of our computers run on the LAN at gigabit speeds and we need to keep them at that speed, the phones only have 100mb ports on them. Unfortunately that means either two different switches, one for computers and one for phones, or a single expensive switch for both. The cheapest gigabit, QoS, & PoE switch I have found that has more than 4 PoE ports is this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833127287
But we would rather get something cheaper if possible. So my question is would it be ok to get these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=DGS-1100-16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833122146
and have all the computers (computers all have gigabit cards) and our two printers (printers only have 100mb connections) plugged into the DLink switch, and then have the PoE switch plugged into the DLink, with the VoIP phones plugged into the Netgear switch. QoS would be set on the DLink to allow traffic coming from the Netgear switch to have highest priority to maintain voice quality. I know quite a lot about computers, but not really a lot about networking stuff. So I dont even really know if it is even easy to set up the system like that and configure it all or not. Would that even work right?
Does anyone know if those switches are of good quality and would last a while?
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