Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:13:59 -0600 From: jdunham@texas.net To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? Message-ID: <405B4677.1569.39F81789@localhost>
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On 20 Mar 2004 at 9:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote: > > > > 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. I have had problems with a cheap TrendNet switch. I no longer recall the details (except that backups that went through it tended to die), but it was in a high-traffic location and the problems were fixed by replacing it with a not-quite-as-cheap D-Link switch. I compared notes with another sysadmin at a different local company and found he'd had a similar experience with the same switch. I have a different model of cheap TrendNet switch in a low-traffic location and have had no trouble with it. YMMV. -- Jerry Dunham M3 Design, Inc. jdunham@m3designinc.com (512) 218-8858
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