From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 21:24:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8104137B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b-san-onnet.worldcom.com [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D1443EC2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from bwhalen (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.58.59.27]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBE5Og1K001074; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <009601c2a331$7a8b7500$3224200a@bwhalen> From: "Brian" To: "Gary D Kline" , "FreeBSD Mailing List" References: <20021213060718.GA8054@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: uninformed qstn... Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:14:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would not buy a hub, 8 port unmanaged switches are under a hundred bucks now. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary D Kline" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: uninformed qstn... > > Hi People, > Before I (potentially) throw aay some bills, I thought I'd > ask the hardware-savvy if there is any appreciable difference > between makes of hubs. > > After 5 years I am getting ready to move up to a 10/100 RJ-45 > hub. I've got a 5-port Linksys (always had good luckwith > Linksys); thinking of buying an 8-port 10/100 Linksys for > around $50. Would buying a non-name-brand clone do the same > job? > > (signed) > Wondering-in-Washington. > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message