Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 23:56:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs Message-ID: <3A0B9C20.F137736D@softweyr.com> References: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca> <20001109151234.A33585@panzer.kdm.org>
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"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 14:43:03 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry <ken@kdm.org> writes:
> >
> > Kenneth> I would suggest getting the Netgear or 3Com boards
> > Kenneth> instead. They're Alteon OEM boards, and are generally a
> > Kenneth> fair bit cheaper than the price you'll get from Alteon.
> >
> > So I'm finding out.
> >
> > Kenneth> So if you want a Alteon board with a cat-5 interface,
> > Kenneth> you'll probably have to go directly to Alteon. AFAIK,
> > Kenneth> you can't buy Alteon-branded boards from anyone but
> > Kenneth> Alteon. You'll have to call them up and talk to a
> > Kenneth> salesperson.
> >
> > I did finally manage to find someone at Alteon who pointed me at a
> > Canadian reseller. Dynavar in Calgary is saying things like CAN$1200+
> > for an Alteon SX card (512K). The 3C985B-SX (1MB), from the same supplier,
> > is CAN$739.
> >
> > Go figure.
>
> The pricing is probably designed so that Alteon isn't underselling their
> OEMs. The solution is to do what they want, and buy from their OEMs. :)
NetGear GA620T, CDN $529.99 at www.microwarehouse.ca.
Searching google for "NetGear GA620T Canada" turned up mostly references to
FreeBSD. ;^)
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