From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 3 5:48:16 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 6AF0B37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6AE43E77 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g83CmAY04850; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:48:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g83CmA414561; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:48:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g83Cm7o14554; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:48:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D74AF87.7040401@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:48:07 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hawking Technologies switches References: <20020902211510.L30110-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Ryan Thompson wrote: > 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. Hawking makes some "ok" hardware, although you typically get what you paya for. I am a Netgear fan for all my inexpensive network hardware needs, but I have used Hawking stuff in the past, and haven't had too much of a problem. The only thing I can say is, I have had a few of their hubs go bad (just stop working), but nothing major. If price is a big issue, and you can't slap down the extra couple of $$'s to get a Netgear (or other), then Hawking will do you just fine. There isn't all that much difference in these little boxes these days anyhow. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message