[lug] Kingston Switching Hubs

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Be careful!  I had 2 out of 3 LinkSys switches go out recently (both about 1 
year old).  They were 8 port switches.  Our 24 port switch is still alive (about 
1 year old).  For doing it cheap I had much better luck with D-Link switches.

Ferdinand

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:40:14AM -0600, Warren Sanders wrote:
> 
>>>Does anyone here have experience with this brand of switch? Is
>>>it reliable, or is it more like the SMC 10/100 hub at my previous
>>>employer? (it would go catatonic every month or so)
>>>
>>Gee I hope the SMCs (16 port switch) we just got for $200 each don't do
>>that!
>>
> 
> I hope so too...  A few years ago I had a few of the SMC 8-port 10/100
> switches that would periodically freak out -- maybe ever month or so...
> That combined with SMC changing the chipset of the "EtherPower" from the
> Tulip to their own proprietary chipset without changing the name kind of
> pissed me off.
> 
> I was just looking at some Linksys 24-port 10/100 unmanaged switches, but I
> think they were more in the $300 range.  I've been pretty happy with the
> performance of their 8-port switches though -- especially the 8 LEDs per
> port -- gobs of information including seperate TX and RX indicators.
> 
> Sean
> 



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