which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:45:12 -0800
Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> 
> 	People,
> 
> 	I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would
> 	check with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a
> 	good deal.  If there is somethng other that would work equally
> 	well on my FreeBSD netwrk, please le me know.  (I've had good
> 	luck with Linksys, but have read some negative comments.....)

I would suggest advoiding hubs, as switches are uber cheap nodays and
give better performace... multiple collision zones and traffic is not
broadcast to everyone.

I am currently using a Zonet ZFS3008... it is cheap and works
nicely... had one die on me from over heating thought... this on runs
a lot cooler thought. Forget what model the one that died after a year
was, but it had the LEDs on top and the power plug on the opasite side
the the RJ45 connectors.