From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 14:31:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 C686116A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBBD43D1D for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A149B2BDA6 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:31:30 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E419C5130D; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:01:28 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:01:28 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "W. D." Message-ID: <20040319223128.GS21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040319034512.GA21920@tao.thought.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040318225155.0964c650@209.152.117.178> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:31:32 -0000 --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--