From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 23:01:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1521D16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3FA43D2F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2J749ZQ012645; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id i2J71QpJ087212; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:01:25 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "W. D." Message-ID: <20040319070125.GA58592@tao.thought.org> References: <20040319034512.GA21920@tao.thought.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:01:31 -0000 Thanks for everybody's input. I'll check around. gay On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:54:49PM -0600, W. D. wrote: > At 21:45 3/18/2004, Gary Kline, wrote: > > > > People, > > > > I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check > > with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a good > > deal. If there is somethng other that would work equally well > > on my FreeBSD netwrk, please le me know. (I've had good luck > > with Linksys, but have read some negative comments.....) > > > > thanks much, > > > > gary > > Hey Gary, > > If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic > at times, the best hub is a switch! You are likely to have > less bandwidth wasting collisions during high traffic periods. > > NetGear switches seem to provide very good value for me. > > Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix