[MLB-WIRELESS] [TIB] A new offer has been added to TIB - 24/10/2002

[Vincent Chin]

I swapped my 10mbps 2yr old 5port hub to a $60(discount) N-WAY 8port 10/100 
switch. I am not sure if it have any sort of intellegence in management but 
I am sure it's a 1600mbps backbone for fullduplex. It has been on for(from 
the date on the receipt Wed 6th Mar 2002) you count ;). Haven't been 
powerdown, have been serving the 7 machines at my place 24x7.

Switching it off for the first time :P and tearing off the screws, revealed 
some Realtek chips in it. Sure realtek are not race breed but they are kinda 
OK and really affordable for me. $15 for a 10/100mbps network card and $60 
for a 8port 10/100mbps switch is cheap and reliable. I don't even know if 
the $17 NIC supports DMA that takes off load from the cpu. Certainly not 
best performance.

I haven't heard of a switch or hub that gives problem and a 'reboot' that 
fixes it..

From: "Tony Langdon, VK3JED" <vk3jed at optushome.com.au>
To: "Nath P" <nathp at optushome.com.au>
CC: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] [TIB] A new offer has been added to TIB -  
24/10/2002
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:55:49 +1000

At 06:51 PM 24/10/2002 +1000, you wrote:

>Alloy might be cheap, but do they work? I work at a IT company, and we have
>stopped buying alloy gear because of the problems we have had with their
>switches. the basic 8 port 10/100 switching hubs have on occasion go into a
>state where you can ping through them but nothing much else... we have got
>replacement ones and they do the same thing.. the only solution seemed to 
>be
>to cycle the power every few days.. anyone wanna do that for an AP? *grins*

That sounds like some cheap switches we've got. :-(  Annoying things.  I've 
got a timer on the worst offender to power cycle it several times during the 
day on weekends, so those logging in remotely aren't off for more than a few 
hours worst case...  During the week, I just hit the power toggle button on 
the timer twice to execute a power cycle manually. :)

Oh well, hope to ditch those next year, I've put in a submission for a high 
end 40 port switch to replace that crap. :)

73 de Tony, VK3JED
http://vkradio.com


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