> But no matter what your cabling, GET a GOOD SWITCH, forget the
> Netgear/D-Link "toys", if you are looking for real
> performance, there is
> no point upgrading a highway to 4+ lanes and then putting a
> single lane toll booth in.
Always good advice, but really needs to be balanced with the environment. If someone's just looking for a little boost from 100Mbps, and doesn't need all the features of a managed switch, a Gigabit "toy" switch from DLink might be OK-- particularly for a home-based network... I have never achieved anywhere close to gigabit performance with mine, but I've gotten a few hundred Mbps, which was enough for the software that was crunching the data...
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Derek
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