From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 21:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BDE15447; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA74667; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:54 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rick Hamell Cc: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters Message-ID: <20000121000054.H73715@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:34:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:34:11PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find > > the price reasonable). Their stackable 16 port hubs and network > > adapters seem to be at a very good price, but I question their > > reliability and performance. Does anyone have any experience with this > > equipment? > > I personally like Netgear hubs and switches with Kingston NICs all > around in the computers. As cheap as the cards are, they've been in my > experience more reliable and better performers then 3Com or Intel. We have lots of 4 to 16 port Netgears at the office. Never had any trouble from any of them. Many are getting pretty old too. Funny thing, only trouble we have had is from 24 port Cisco hubs and a 8 port Cisco switch, and Cisco is the $$$ one. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message