>Since my bro is moving in with his PC I'm going to hook him up to my
>adsl line and router, so therefor I'm in search for a hub. I think a
>small and cheap 4 or 5 port would be enough. The cheapest I could find
>was around $40. I know 10 Mb-only hubs are cheaper, but the adsl modem
>requires a 10 Mb ethernet connection, and we also want to mulitplay so
>it would be nice if we can do that @ 100 Mb. I have looked around the
>internet and searched at Google/Mac, but everyone is using another
>brand. So what are you guys using?
I have 3 computers, an iBook (sometimes on Airport, only use 100Mbps
for large file moving), a G3 and a PC, a D-Link DFE-905DX 100Mbps
hub. It's full duplex, auto-sensing and has an Uplink port so it does
cross-over to another hub/switch (which we have at the core of our
network) without a special cable. It was �56 (UK) and is a nice piece
of kit. There are cheaper hubs but the cheaper the hub, the less it
can handle as per collisions and stuff go (AFAIK - YMMV). All I
recommend is that you buy a new one not a second had one as older
auto-sensing switches are known to suffer problems with 1Gbps
ethernet cards (we had to replace ours as a friends QS 733 would link
to it).
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