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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2619)	9/23/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Anyone, I ordered the PL586-133 upgrade chip for my 486 from PowerLeap through their web site. It's been a week now and I have not received the upgrade. I e-mailed them a day ago and no answer yet. I did get a confirmation that they charged my account for the order on 9/16 by e-mail. Has anyone dealt with them before? thanks, Bob powerleap.com

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2619)	9/24/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave, Be-careful. I almost bought one till I read the manufactures specs. I'm still not sure what a switching hub is supposed to be. Real vendors sells hubs and switches. not switching hubs. The product is an ethernet switch but be forewarned it has only 200 Mbps of bandwidth on its backplane. To Acheive non blocking performance you need 1.6G of bandwidth on a 8 Port 100M switch. As long as you understand that, it may be a great deal. Other recommended switches, Assante Friendly Switch, Netgear forget the model#, Any Cisco 29XX series listed in order of ascending price. I like the netgear very much its the only switch under $1000 that uses cut through and store and forward switching modes. All others even many more expensive are slow store and forward. Sean