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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Steve Hovey wrote:

> > >i know this is off topic but, are any of you having good luck with 10 to
> > >100 switches? and if so what brands?
> > 
> >    What kind do you have now (so I can avoid getting one of those myself :-))?
> 
> Oh I bought a cheapy 2 port linksys - returned it for another - and same
> thing - 4 or so hours of running fine it locks up.

So far I've been happy with the SMC 8plus hubs, 6 switched 10BaseT, 2
switched 100BaseT, it's only locked up once on us, during a power surge,
and then only on one port. Good price too.