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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:54:49 -0600
From:      "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178>
In-Reply-To: <20040319034512.GA21920@tao.thought.org>

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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=20
>	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!=99 -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-pa=
ge/



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