[Sussex] Re: Sourcing list of hardware

[Geoff Teale]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 01:31 +0100, Steven Dobson wrote:
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> 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.

Agreed.  My experience was with Novatech switches that were sub 10 quid
a few years back - even then they only crashed about once a quarter.
For desktop use it was a mild annoyance, but I wouldn't risk cheap
switches in infrastructure.


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