Switch

El_Presidente

Lads.

I'm buying a switch, 8 or 16 port im not sure.

Just wondering does anyone have any advice about what I should buy in terms of price/proformance.

neuro-praxis

just thought i'd bump this for ya, since i'm such a kind soul, andy.

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Do your limbs ever get tingly, eh? eh?

Jaden

May I recommend:

www.scan.co.uk

Check out "Hardware" and then "Networking".

£75 sterling will get you a 10/100 switched hub, 8 way, plus 1 uplink. I have the version of this without the uplink port, and it rocks. You'd never think something so small could do what it does. It allows you to connect at 10 or 100 (2 of my machines only have 10meg cards), and because it's switched, you can leech from one machine to another like mad, and not affect your pings to another PC that you're playing Quake on.

I have a 2nd one of these hubs in a box, brand new, with a six volt power supply. I'll pay post, and it will only cost you 80 bills. For an extra tenner, I'll chuck in all the patch leads you'll need. (all of the same qualitiy as the cross over I gave you at ShadowLAN ).

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Hail To The King, Baby.

Jaden.

El_Presidente

Jaden, SOLD!

I'll mail you about the details but you got yourself a deal fella.

elexes

me got a 24 port 10/100 hub 3com superstack 2
and is a very good one . nop i dident pay the full price for it . .... and i c its used in most good high spec networks

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what type of world will we live in when there is no world ?

Gavin

As you should know from your networks...

go for a 10/100mb one obviously enough. Don't bother get an intelligent hub, tis a waste of money on a lan that size.
www.insight.com/uk are a good place to go shopping. 100mb hubs are expensive though.. !

I'm gettin one in a week or 2, i'm just gnna get a 10mb one. around 50 quid as a pose to 200 or so.

Gav

Jaden

Dum de dum. You still interested Andy? Mail is intermittent these days.

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Hail To The King, Baby.

Jaden.

Gerry

hmm elexes, that appears to be a hub you have there, not a switch. Do you know the difference?


[This message has been edited by Gerry (edited 18-01-2001).]

El_Presidente

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