Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? Message-ID: <20040320015321.64476.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040320003959.75B9316A510@hub.freebsd.org>
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[Greg Lehey]
> [W. D.]
>> [Gary Kline]
>>> I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check
>>> with this list ...
>> 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.
> ... hubs are obsolete. You can find switches for almost nothing nowadays;
> don't buy hubs.
> ... I've never had problems with cheap switches, so I would tend to
> buy by price.
About five years ago, when miniature hubs came out, I did have a bad
experience with one. When the load neared 100 MBit/sec and stayed that
high for half a minute or so, it would reset, taking at least half a minute
to start up again.
If you really mean to put it under load, be sure you can get a refund.
Mark Terribile
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