From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 00:52:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07087 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA07081 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:52:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33]) by relay-10.mail.demon.net id aa1016188; 11 Mar 97 8:45 GMT Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsys.demon.co.uk (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA00327; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:45:02 GMT Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:45:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson Reply-To: Doug Rabson To: Luigi Rizzo cc: Doug Rabson , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q about 100Mb ether cards In-Reply-To: <199703101745.SAA27043@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Incidentally, I just picked up an 8 port 100base TX hub for GBP 470. > > Amazing. Last time I checked these things were in the thousands. > > The ones we got (Pheenet) were about 870.000 lire incl. 19% VAT, > approx US$ 550. Yes, prices are going down! I just got home and realised that the price was even cheaper at GBP 359 + 17.5% vat. Things are looking up. I though they would never get around to pushing this stuff to the mass market. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891