From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 31 18:28:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D681511F for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 124EH0-0000Bu-00 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:28:06 -0700 Message-ID: <386D66D4.B3DB5EB3@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:30:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C789C.DD290597@softweyr.com> <385F2FFD.CA594829@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > was causing it. I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed, the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW. The special is a $20 mail-in rebate, making the price of the switch $99.99 in the CompUSA stores. I haven't had a chance to put this through it's paces, but I bought 2 earlier today, one for me and one for a friend. When I get back to the test lab on Monday, I'll hook it up to a SmartBits and make it sweat. If you're looking for a nice little 5-port 100Base-TX switch, this is a good opportunity (if you have a CompUSA store nearby). -- "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-hackers" in the body of the message