Hot? 8 Port Hub $9 & 8 port 10/100 switch for $29

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RockeThrower

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I just picked up a SOHO 8 port switch and have been quite satisfied. Good construction with decent documentation (what little was needed).
 
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Evadman

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$7 shipping. Not too bad, but it just goes up $7 for every extra one you order. Just a heads up for anyone who doesn't want to go all the way to the end :)
 
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Evadman

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Alliance Has a crappy re-sellers rating, but I ordered just to see how it goes for all you others out there. I will let you all know.
 
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leroyko

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<< Alliance Has a crappy re-sellers rating, but I ordered just to see how it goes for all you others out there. I will let you all know. >>



Just checked. resellerratings.com rated it 7.0/7.0 Yahoo marked it 5 stars. Looks like a very good company
 
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polotek147

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Why does the switch cost more than the hub? I prefer a switch myself, but is it more in demand?
 
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Aquarius

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Yo Polo,

The switch has more functionality than the hub... a switch is better if you are running computers on different LAN speeds. Some hubs won't allow you to do that.....
 
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burnedout

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They have a nice price on the Acorp 6A815EPD Dual Socket 370 Motherboard for $79.99. The only Intel i815 board in existance. Performed fairly well in tests too.

Here

Cheapest I had seen on that baby was about $129
 
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q2261

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<< Why does the switch cost more than the hub? I prefer a switch myself, but is it more in demand? >>



A hub has shared bandwith; this means that if you have a 10-baseT, your actual speed is going to be 10 mb / number of ports. On the other hand, a switch has separate bandwith for each port, and thus is extremely fast compared to most any kind of hub.
 
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laserpen

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<< They have a nice price on the Acorp 6A815EPD Dual Socket 370 Motherboard for $79.99. The only Intel i815 board in existance. Performed fairly well in tests too.

Here

Cheapest I had seen on that baby was about $129 >>



Yeah.. i815 dual CPU board is my favorite board too!! Thanks for your info. Just order one!!!
 
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jeffmoi

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It is definitely a hot deal. :)
My cable company (cablevision) offers me about 2.5Mbps Internet access. Do I need a 10/100 switch to build my home network? or a 10 base one will be enough?
 
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wedi42

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<< My cable company (cablevision) offers me about 2.5Mbps Internet access. Do I need a 10/100 switch to build my home network? or a 10 base one will be enough? >>


10 base is plenty of bandwidth for sharing internet access, but 10/100 is sure nice if you want to share any files
for the small price difference i'd go with a 10/100 switch
 
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PandaBear

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SOHO is a good brand, I had their NIC and it is good.

But $10.04 for UPS ground, that is expensive.
 
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<< A hub has shared bandwith; this means that if you have a 10-baseT, your actual speed is going to be 10 mb / number of ports. On the other hand, a switch has separate bandwith for each port, and thus is extremely fast compared to most any kind of hub. >>

I've seen this before and its simply not true about a hub. A hub DOES NOT reserve bandwith into slots, you cant just divide the speed by the number of connected ports. If only one user is transmitting on a 100MB hub, that user has 100Mb of bandwidth available (regardless of how many other users are listening). A hub just allows multiple users on the shared medium - standard ethernet rules about collisions apply. That is, if 5 people try to use a 100MB hub at the same time they will NOT get 20MB each, the overhead of collisions will reduce everybody's available bandwidth to way below that. A hub makes everyone look like they are sitting on the same wire just like good old coax ethernet used to be, the bandwidth is not managed by anyone (nor the hub).

The point about switches is correct, with the price difference being so small these days no one should be buying hubs anymore unless you have a specific need, e.g. you want to monitor the traffic of other machines, etc...
 
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Kostya17

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Just to make everything clear:

The $9 hub is 10 Mbps
the $29 switch is 100 Mbps

--my $0.02
 
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peter1015

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Their Acorp Dual CPU Motherboard 's price ($79) is a steal. Tomshardware.com highly rated it for its performance. ( Even better than Asus CUV4X-D). it should be a hotter deal too.
 
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Scootin159

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Just got one, looks like a good deal. A 5-port Netgear one was gonna cost $50+s/h, so I got an 8-port for less :)
 
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MrEnigma

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To clear thing up.

A hub is where when one computer sends something it repeats it to every other computer connected to that hub. A switch is smart enough to know which computer it is going to, and where that computer is connected so it will send it directly to that computer. So basically hub repeats to all, switch sends it directly to that computer making it much more efficient. About the speeds, both hubs and switches are available in 10/100.
 
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