[plug] OT: 10/100 hubs

[Bernard Blackham]

On 10 Apr 2001, Adam Ashley wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, I have a FS108 switch with Netgear's tulip FA310TX cards in almost
every machine (two linux, two windows) , yet the highest throughput I
usually get is around 7MB/s at the best of times (measured with tcpblast).
Does this sound about right for a 100 mbps network?

Also the switch runs pretty awfully hot, even with decent ventilation.
I've setup a FS104 switch with a linux server previously, and the switch
simply sitting on top of a machine in an air conditioned room in a
ventilated spot, reached temps that could almost burn your hand. Normal?
Surely, no. Netgear just said that it wasn't getting adequate ventilation.
Do they want us to install a fan on the darn thing ourselves?

Bernard.

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