Advantages: quality of build Disadvantages: runs hot
...have to say that the Netgear stuff runs hot! I have to put a couple of 486 heatsinks on it! - it doesn't have vent slots like the FS108 - shame as it does got hot during the summer, and just nice and warm during the winter.
It has link lights for all ports (10/100) and the best of all, individual utilisation bar graphs for 10/100 and collision.
There are cheaper hubs, though they won't be made out of metal - like the netgear stuff - it'll be ...
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Advantages: Solid. Diagnostics. Disadvantages: Popular with engineers - as in "can I just borrow this for 5 mins..."
...switching hub.
Being a Netgear product, it has a number of features that far too many manufacturers seem to leave out - for example, dual LED RJ45 jacks - one light for link/data on 100BaseT, the other for 10BaseT. The utilisation graphs for both 100Mbps and 10Mbps (and collision indicators for both segments) are extremely useful, and I've used them quite a bit for debugging. Also, as the case is steel rather than moulded plastic (cf Intel, for ...
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