From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 9 22:58:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C3E37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA36958; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:58:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:58:43 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Wes Peters Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs Message-ID: <20001109235843.A36934@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca> <20001109151234.A33585@panzer.kdm.org> <3A0B9C20.F137736D@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A0B9C20.F137736D@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:56:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 23:56:32 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 14:43:03 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > 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. The Netgear boards only have 512K SRAM, thus the reason for the lower price. > Searching google for "NetGear GA620T Canada" turned up mostly references to > FreeBSD. ;^) :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message