From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 31 20:39:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx0.scr3am.com (ns0.scr3am.com [209.235.34.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3577414D7C for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ph0d@sweb.com) Received: from localhost (ph0d@localhost) by mx0.scr3am.com (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta6+[rimalz]) with ESMTP id e014cHY29800; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:38:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: ph0d@vanity.scr3am.com To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price In-Reply-To: <386D66D4.B3DB5EB3@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second without any complaints.. Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message