On 9/4/05, Przemyslaw Nowaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi misc, > I'm trying to find & buy a stable & reliable 5 to 8 port 100Mbit switch > for my home network. My first impression was to buy the 3COM > OfficeConnect Dual Speed Switch 10/100 5 Plus (3C16790) or the D-Link > DES-1005D Switch 10/100 Mbit/s 5-port but I thought that it might be a > good idea to ask here for some advice, not only about those two
its off topic, but have my 2 cents anyways: - as already mentioned, the netgear-switches have a very good price/performance-ratio. don't expect peak performance, also under load they do get warm, and lock up once in a while. but for soho-use they are quite buyable - it is the same with level-1devices: quite reliable, if not constantly under heavy load, a bit smaller than the netgear ones, but with plastic casing - if a small netgear switch gets warm, a d-link switch will get hot - you can buy expensive brands like hp, intel etc. but don't expect the quality of the equipment to be higher. it might be. --knitti
