I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today
CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the
DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130.
It appears to operate quite nicely. I can run all 5 ports at
100BaseTX speeds in full-duplex mode and it seems to take whatever
I throw at it, though I didn't life test it so I don't know what
it can actually handle. It seems to have sufficient buffering to
deal with fragmented NFS packets without losing anything so I'm happy.
Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to
get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss
when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what
was causing it.
Note that buy.com lists a 'DFE-910' kit for around $100, but their
description of it is that it contains a hub rather then a switch. I
know what I got at CompUSA was a switch, not a hub, but I don't know
what you'd get if you bought the DFE-910 part number from buy.com.
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