In article <201004071118.o37bivk1022...@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco
<jgr...@ns.sol.net> writes
Unfortunately, power-cycling crashed PC's is (was?) pretty common, and
many users are (were?) also trained to shut off PC's when done, so here
you've introduced something that is by-design going to fail periodically.
OK, I agree that fitting a PC-powered hub into a client PC isn't the
best decision in the world. But losing one segment of a 10Base-T LAN
(which was the technology I used) is not the end of the world, and I
took the precaution of installing the hub in my server.
Despite these potential operational banana skins, it was still a product
that tipped me irrevocably into the world of Ethernet (having earlier
toyed with pale imitations).
--
Roland Perry
