Hi all, Just to add my recent experience to a long past thread.
Around 2 years ago I bought an 8 port switch (primitive and unmanaged) of Edimax, for 300 NIS. It had (as most other small hubs/switches I saw) 8 normal ports, and one which was crossed (which can't be used together with port 1). I was quite happy with it, and the only problem I had with it is that when software-rebooting my ADSL modem, it did not get a connection until I power-cycled the switch. No big problem, as I only rebooted the modem for testing - never really had to do it. Well, I now decided I need another switch. I searched a bit, and found what seemed to be the exact same switch, for 152 NIS. I ordered it, got it yesterday, and instead of 1+8 ports, it has automatic MDI/MDI-X (that's what written on the box) - that is, it automatically detects if it needs to cross the port or not. For all the 8 ports. I connected to it some hardware, with both cross and non-cross cables, and all worked well, except one old PC (which does work well with the old switch). So - whoever shops for such equipment - you should know that such things exist today, are very cheap, but you should check that your (old?) equipment works with them. FYI. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
