From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 2 20:29:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6748737B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:29:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C740F43E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g833TDx31426 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 21:29:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 21:29:13 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Hawking Technologies switches Message-ID: <20020902211510.L30110-100000@ren.sasknow.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is OT for about every other mailing list I subscribe to. Vive le -chat :-) Anyone have any experience with Hawking Tech's 10/100 switches? They come in below other good low-price offerings by D-Link and Netgear, well below 3Com, and a fraction of Cisco, but appear to be full- featured. I've been charged with the task of outfitting a small new network room in a budget-sensitive fashion, so I'd need rack-mountable unmanaged RJ-45 Ethernet switches that can handle a handful of LAN servers, and connect 20-25 workstations. Recommendations? I've used D-Link, Netgear and 3C in similar scenarios, all with zero problems, but have yet to run with Hawking, mostly because I don't know a lot about them. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message