Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Message-ID: <199802141801.NAA03324@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:22:09 -0600 David Kelly said: >Broke down last week when I saw SVEC 8-port hubs with 10base2 BNC too at >http://www.onsale.com for $39.95. Bid for one (of 27 in that auction) >and got it. $10 for UPS ground shipping wasn't as good a deal. No >exhaustive definitive testing, but it appears to function as claimed. Sheesh! And I thought the $129 each I paid for a couple of Maxtech hubs at Datacomm 3 years ago was cheap! The electronics used in a base 10baseT hub have standardized to the level that basic PC chipsets have, even cheap "run of the mill" ones are fairly decent. Of course, for mission-critial hubs, I still stick with the "big guys" if only for the monitoring & stablity. I use one of the Maxtechs on my build & test bench, the other is for the household network. (What your house _isn't_ wired with cat-5?) John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee Office: (423)691-6498 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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