Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:43:34 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters Message-ID: <200001210043.SAA80525@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com> of "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 PST." <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com>
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"gummibear@nettaxi.com" writes: >Now, I feel that 3com is pretty reliable but very expensive. Intel on >the ot her hand is also a good performer, but also a bit pricy (although >better than 3 com). He's willing to spend around $2000 on the >equipment, but I'd really like >to get him the best price/performance I can. > >I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find >the p rice 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'm also open to suggestions to other possible low cost/high performance >solutions. About 6 months ago in a similar situation I selected an Allied Telesyn AT724i (guessing number from memory). This is a 24 port auto 10/100 switch (not hub) with internal power supply. Price was about $630 from http://www.warehouse.com/. Installed it and forgot about it. It just works. The advantage of a switch over a hub is that dynamically any two hosts can establish a full duplex connection, eliminating collisions, and in theory allowing twice the bandwidth. The 10/100 feature is nice as the switch buffers between one speed and the other. Nobody has to do anything special, it just happens. Device has 3 LED's for each of the 24 ports so you have plenty of flashing lights to entertain Pointy-Haired-Bosses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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