Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

[Doug Rabson]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote:

> > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be
> > reset by power-cycling).
> 
>   Most of these can be attributed to the crappy wall wart they call a
> power supply.  If it's plugged into an UPS or replace it with your own DC
> power supply they generally hold up a lot better.
> 
>   I have a Netgear FS108 at home (8 port 10/100 switch) and I've found
> Netgear stuff to be as cheap as I would go and still be reasonably
> reliable.

That rings a bell. I had a D-Link 4 port hub and I went through about 4
power supplies before I gave up, binned it and bought a Netgear.

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