From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 16:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC58153C3; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-208-170-118-115.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.170.118.115]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04781; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:44:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA80525; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:43:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200001210043.SAA80525@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters In-reply-to: Message from "gummibear@nettaxi.com" of "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 PST." <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:43:34 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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