[ale] Should I buy a cheap 10/100 switch ?

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On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:08:48AM -0400, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> My 100 MBit Hub just blew a few ports and I am thinking about replacing
> it with a cheap 10/100 switch (100-200$).
> 
> Does anybody have experience with cheap switches ?
> ( delay because of store and forward, firmware crashes , lost packets ..)

Well, I'm not sure if this is what you want, but D-0Link has a really
nifty 10/100 N-way switch available from 5 to 24 ports.  FAirly dumb as
far as switches go, it still translates 10/100 traffic and each port can
operate at either speeed.

They're damn cheap, too.  They're the DSH-5,-8,-12, and -24.

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