[Sussex] Re: Sourcing list of hardware

[Steven Dobson]

Geoff

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:18 +0100, Geoff Teale wrote:
> - Given the price point I'm surprised they bother to sell hubs at all
> these days.

That kinda supprised me too.

> - In my experience really cheap switches occasionally crash and need to
> be power cycled, hubs don't do that (there's nothing clever in a hub).

I bought two of those cheap switches from dabs and it has been running
without a problem for over a year now.  With the growth of home networks
I would expect the cheap switches now to be a single chip solution.
Given that I can't see them going wrong.

Steve