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Re: recommendations for 8 port hub with no fan?!

Alan Hodgson (ahodgson@simkin.com)
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:14:09 -0800

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:57:51AM -0800, Dale McGladdery wrote:
> As stated previously, switches are more network friendly. (They also limit
> packet sniffing, if security is an issue.) In the "bake off" tests I've seen
> published for "the big guys" (Bay (Nortel)/Cisco/3Com etc.), all the
> switches were able to keep up to full load at 100 megabit/sec. on multiple
> ports. Again, this might not be true of the low end switches.
>

It's not. There's a reason Cisco's cost 4 or 5 times as much as those cheap
home switches. I'm not even sure the cheap ones do full-duplex, and they sure
can't drive more than 2 or 3 ports at full speed.
 

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