Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:01:28 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? Message-ID: <20040319223128.GS21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178> References: <20040319034512.GA21920@tao.thought.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178>
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--0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote: > 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 >> 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.....) > > 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. I'd put it more forcibly than that: hubs are obsolete. You can find switches for almost nothing nowadays; don't buy hubs. And yes, I haven't checked whether the EFAH08W is a switch or a hub. But I've never had problems with cheap switches, so I would tend to buy by price. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAW3TAIubykFB6QiMRAgWGAKCsaTxyoMk0ebXriuc/k7OiKCyzTQCfQSm9 39d4vSYPv57C9EHszLpGTVs= =ark3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP--
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