[plug] OT: 10/100 hubs

Adam Ashley adam_ashley at softhome.net
Tue Apr 10 22:37:44 WST 2001


On 10 Apr 2001 15:36:04 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> While thinking about buying hardware for a home network, the following
> question came up: Do all 10/100 hubs do speed translation between a
> device on one port at 10 Mbit and a device on another port at 100 Mbit,
> or do some of them only handle all 10 Mbit devices or all 100 Mbit
> devices? Is this sort of translation a standard feature of 10/100 hubs,
> or something one needs to look for?
> 

you can't go past the netgears. Got a Netgear DS108 running here which
is autosensing 10/100 per port, got three systems running at 100 and the
other 5 at 10 works great. and at most places the prices is pretty
reasonable.

Adam




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