Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:11:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Message-ID: <20021214034131.GH503@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021213060718.GA8054@tao.thought.org> References: <20021213060718.GA8054@tao.thought.org>
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On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 22:07:19 -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: > > Hi People, > Before I (potentially) throw aay some bills, I thought I'd > ask the hardware-savvy if there is any appreciable difference > between makes of hubs. > > After 5 years I am getting ready to move up to a 10/100 RJ-45 > hub. I've got a 5-port Linksys (always had good luckwith > Linksys); thinking of buying an 8-port 10/100 Linksys for > around $50. Would buying a non-name-brand clone do the same > job? I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost any more. I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s. I believe the D-Link can do this speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by collisions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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