As far as price goes, the netgear FS108 is by far the best deal. If you search at pricescan.com, you can find them for less than $180 or so. Plus, they have an internal power supply, so you don't need to have that great big transformer blocking 3 outlets on your power strip. We have a few at work and one at home. Before we had our new office cabled, we had about 20 netgear FS108's (1 for each person because most people have several machines), and about 20 Intel 8 port switches. All of the Netgears still work, most people took them home since we don't need them anymore, but half of the Intel's died and got returned to buy.com. If you wanna spend some cash, get yourself a cisco 2900 series. Avoid intel switches at all costs. I have a 510T at home, and it screws up it's ARP table all the time. I also have a little Intel 8 port switch that has a fan in it with bad bearings so it constantly wakes me up in the middle of the night. Plus, certain Sun onboard ethernet controllers will not work with some Intel switches. There's a firmware upgrade for the Sun machines that this affects, however, Sun's documentation actually recommends upgrading to a better switch. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper at sherohman.org] > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:04 PM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Switches > > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:41:43PM -0600, Mark K wrote: > > Unless you need the port management of a 3Com or Cisco, > it's the way to > > go. > > There's this guy on eBay who's been offering 24-port 3Com > switches with a > starting bid of a penny lately... One of 'em just closed > half an hour or so > ago at ~$260. Two days left on the next one and it's > currently at $66. > > -- > "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft > senior strategist > "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton > Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- > W--(++) N+ o+ > !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G > e* h+ r++ y+ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >