On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 22:07:19 -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: > > Hi People, > Before I (potentially) throw aay some bills, I thought I'd > ask the hardware-savvy if there is any appreciable difference > between makes of hubs. > > After 5 years I am getting ready to move up to a 10/100 RJ-45 > hub. I've got a 5-port Linksys (always had good luckwith > Linksys); thinking of buying an 8-port 10/100 Linksys for > around $50. Would buying a non-name-brand clone do the same > job?
I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost any more. I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s. I believe the D-Link can do this speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by collisions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
