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To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (10063)	1/29/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (3) of 14778

NetGear 5-port: buy.com $87 D-Link 5-port: buy.com $89 Addtron 8-port: buy.com $120 + ($10 rebate offer) CNet 8-port: buy.com $112 LinkSys 5-port: buy.com $74 LinkSys 5-port + 2 NICs: buy.com $92 You might look through these to see what features you like. When I was shopping for a switch I talked to tech-support at NetGear who said all these low-end switches have the same or equivalent basic hardware, (which is not a real great sales pitch but makes it pretty easy to choose). wily PS When I was hooking up my switch I found that my cable modem had to be plugged into the up-link port and was told by Intel tech support that that is equivalent to plugging it into a regular port using a cross-over cable. He could have been wrong or I might have got it wrong but that's how I remember it (and it worked).

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