From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 17:14:03 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 52D3C16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344B043D2D for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: (qmail 22126 invoked by uid 64014); 20 Mar 2004 01:14:02 -0000 Received: from jdunham@texas.net by mail5.speakeasy.net with AmikaGuardian-Server-2.1.2; 20 Mar 2004 01:14:02 -0000 X-AmikaGuardian-Id: mail5.speakeasy.net107974524226122108 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override Structure : 1.6 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Vectored : 1.6 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Forwarded Mail : 1.6 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override : 1.6 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Exception : 1.6 X-AmikaGuardian-Action: Do Nothing() Received: from m3designinc.com (HELO 18jdunham) (ldunham@[66.136.220.34]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Mar 2004 01:14:02 -0000 From: jdunham@texas.net Organization: M3 Design, Inc. To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:13:59 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <405B4677.1569.39F81789@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 01:14:03 -0000 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