> --On 04 September 2005 13:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> A Netgear FS108 is doing it's job very well and also the support of >> Netgear convinced me. As I bought the Switch it had a 5 year warenty >> and a 3year warenty for the power suply. > > The metal-cased Netgear FS105 and FS108 have been working reliably for > me. I also have a GS105 which I'm fairly happy with (apart from not > supporting jumbo frames, but that's my problem as I didn't think of > looking into jumbo support before I bought it). These are > small-business orientated, they also have some consumer-orientated > FS60x and GS60x which I haven't tried but on the website they look a > bit plasticky. > >> Forget about D-Link! I recomment to stay far far away of these crap. > > I haven't experienced their switches, but if they're anything like as > bad as I've found their ADSL routers, that's sound advice...
Their Routers crash, their Firmware is insecure (Firmwareupdate -> Admin-PW == empty but configuration still works), their Switches are fucked up and even their simple PCI-WLan-Cards have totaly fucked up Revisions or just no "country-code" (like my card). I never had any positiv experience with D-Link, realy never. No matter if it deals with manages/unmanages switches, Routers, PCI-Cards. If you buy cheaply then you'll buy twice... And if it deals with Netgear: Use the metal-cased Switches. At home I#ve no 3Com-Switches but e.g. I've also bad experience with level1-Switches. They've 3 years warenty and the power suplies explode (yes..) 2 weeks after the warenty was over. The support refuses any help just because these 2 fucking weeks. And so I got 2 broken Level1-Switches (unmanaged, 32Ports) from a company I know. One had an exploded Power-Suply and the other a fucked up Fan. Both happened ~2 Weeks after the warenty was over so the Admin of the company decided to buy new Hardware (not from level1) and I was able to repair the Switch with the fucked up Fan and got it for (for the case my Netgear-Switch will break one day). ;) Maybe the OpenBSD-Developers could create a Website with good hardware because I think they've so much hardware that they know what's crap and what isn't. At least I would like such a recommendation-Website. To find good hardware is realy a pain today because of all this fucked up cheap crap... Kind regards, Sebastian -- Don't buy anything from YeongYang. Their Computercases are expensiv, they WTX-powersuplies start burning and their support refuse any RMA even there's still some warenty.
