From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 9 22:55:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FFF37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13u86y-0000U1-00; Thu, 09 Nov 2000 23:56:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3A0B9C20.F137736D@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 23:56:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs References: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca> <20001109151234.A33585@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 14:43:03 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry 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. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message