Ok, 2 things.... Why is gigabit bad? Its up to the network cards to pick the speed. Second, man last time I messed with a 10Mbps hub/switch was like in 1999. Why so long for an update?
Goto any computer show, or even a mom-pop store, im sure there will be a 10/100 switch. -- Trevor On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Michael Sokolov <msoko...@ivan.harhan.org> wrote: > Charles N Wyble <char...@knownelement.com> wrote: > >> The TRW swap meet has them every month. > > Hmm. The next one falls on a holiday weekend: I'm going to be in San > Diego from Dec 24 through New Year - may be a bit hard to justify a > drive from San Diego to Redondo Beach and back. > >> Yep. Cisco makes some 12 port switches. Readily finable at the swap meet. > > Doesn't have to be of Cisco grade. A consumer-grade 10/100 switch would > be good enough as long as it has a decent number of ports (not 5) and is > old enough to have been made in the pre-Gigabit era. > >> Uh.... does it have to be completely non gigabit? Can it have gigabit >> upload ports? If it can then you can find numerous 10/100 switches at >> various retailers. > > Well, if it has both Gigabit and non-Gigabit ports, and the number of > non-Gigabit ports is decent (again would like somewhere on the order of > 12), I suppose it could just ignore/tape over the Gigabit ones... > >> Frys would be where I would go. > > I'll look. > >> Actually a client of mine just bought a netgear switch that was 10/100 >> only. > > Would he be willing to share a link as to where he bought it? > >> Why no gigabit? I have a couple theories about why that might be the >> case, but I'll let you enlighten us :) > > The problem is that a lot of gear nowadays comes with Gigabit Ethernet > ports without the customer asking for it. I don't want a random piece > of gear to be trying to connect at Gigabit speeds without my knowledge > or consent, and the easiest way to enforce a 100 Mbps speed limit is to > ensure that none of the switches are Gigabit-capable. > > MS > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
