[rescue] Q: Regarding Cat5 cable/NetGear hubs & Sun HW

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:05:57AM -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> Netgear is one of my favorite low-cost, low-maintenance (i.e., none)
> network equip suppliers. Their NICs are garbage but their hubs and
> switches are perfect for a lot of my needs. The sturdy steel case is a
> great feature. I just wish more of them had available rack-mount kits.
> In many cases where I would normally buy a 16 or 24 port intelligent
> switch and set up a few VLANs, I prefer to buy a bunch of small Netgears
> for 1/10th the total cost. But then I can't rack-mount them...

NetGear is actually the "low end" division of BayNetworks...  or at least
they were.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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