Switch to Netgear

Advantages: Excellent quality. loads of features, easy to install
Disadvantages: None

...Netgear are well known for their networking equipment and it is for this reason I want to tell you about a great piece of kit. The 24 port switch. 24 ports of networking capability.... But what does that all mean??? Ok, let me tell you about what a network is. Even the internet is just one big network. it is simply just a collection of computers that are connected together and can communicate. Simple! But, how do you connect them together? Its not like they shake hands and have a chat is it? Well in a way, that is what they are doing but using some extra hardware to do this. To put a computer on a network, it needs a Network interface card or NIC. This plugs into your computer's motherboard. Its basically similar to installing a graphics card or sound card. You then need to connect the computer via the NIC card to...

andycharger 21.07.2003 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Netgear 24port 10/100 Switch

Switch to Netgear

Advantages: Easy to use, easy to install
Disadvantages: closeness of the ports.

...Netgear are well known for their networking equipment and it is for this reason I want to tell you about a great piece of kit. The 24 port switch. 24 ports of networking capability.... But what does that all mean??? Ok, let me tell you about what a network is. Even the internet is just one big network. it is simply just a collection of computers that are connected together and can communicate. Simple! But, how do you connect them together? Its not like they shake hands and have a chat is it? Well in a way, that is what they are doing but using some extra hardware to do this. To put a computer on a network, it needs a Network interface card or NIC. This plugs into your computer's motherboard. Its basically similar to installing a graphics card or sound card. You then need to connect the computer via the NIC card to...

andycharger 02.06.2003 (04.06.2003) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Netgear 24port 10/100 Switch

Big network small price

Advantages: Reliable, functional and cheap, easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...the cabinet. Once the headache of putting it in the switch cabinet is out of the way, its plain sailing. However, remember to plug in the mains cable to the rear of the switch BEFORE you bolt it in. Its difficult to reach to the back unless you have a cabinet that opens on all sides or if like us, the back faces a wall! All of the network sockets and connections are located on the front of this switch so it means no further fiddling around the back once it is installed. Handy if you need to make any networking changes to the configuration. On the older models (pre last summer) there was a button located on the Right hand side that allowed users to select between Uplink and normal perfomance on the 24th port. This means that the last port can be used for linking to the main server if needed. However, this has all become autmated...

andycharger 10.05.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of NETGEAR ProSafe FS524 - switch - 24 ports

Switch

Advantages: Fun game for many
Disadvantages: Only when you lose

...The basic method of playing Switch is the same the world over, although the choice of penalty cards does vary and in doing so causes untold confusion. I understand that this game has other names but I don't know what they are. Switch is a unique game, in that it doesn't follow the whist or rummy format, nor is it a variation of poker or brag. Any number can play but if there will be more than about 8 players, an extra pack of cards must be used. Whether the extra pack of cards has the same design on the back as the first pack, is irrelevant. The speed of the game is such, that there shouldn't be time to work out the probability of a player holding a particular card, based on the difference in the back of the card. I have played Switch as man and boy for nigh on half a century and it makes a nice change from...

jimbuck 21.12.2000 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Switch

* Switching Roles *

Advantages: Great Entertainment , A Fan Must Have
Disadvantages: Hard to tell the twins apart

...the age of nine months old when they shared the role of Michelle Tanner in the American Television show full house. Since then they have appeared in their own television series such as Two Of A Kind and So Little Time as well as their own movies such as Passport To Paris and Our Lips Are Sealed. They also have their own company called Dualstar. They have make up products , Hair products , dolls , clothes , books , DVDs and fragrances. Since around the age of eighteen the girls have been quite quiet on the movie front , and are now considered two separate people rather than one half of twins. Mary-Kate was reportedly dating the actor Heath Ledger around the time of his death. Mary-Kate has suffered from Anorexia Nervosia as well as drug problems. Mary-kate is currently starring without her twin in the film The Wackness. Switching Goals is...

xdonzx 28.09.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Switching Goals (DVD)

Excellent for your managed network solution

Advantages: Monitor, Cap Bandwidth, Security and Fairly easy setup
Disadvantages: None i have come across

...Really good switch this is Easy to setup in the hyper terminal with the serial cable, must make sure you have a machine with a serial port as quite afew machines dont have them any more. I was able to cap server machines to 100mbits or 10mbits switch was excellent because i was able to cap the bandwidth. With the Giga Connection it was excellent to share the speed via all the ports either at 10mb or 100mb. Easy to configure in the web admin area lots of features including security and firewall. You can monitor the bawidth in and out very easyily There are many different prices for this kit and a big difference in price with different supplyers and retailers. I got mine from ebuyer which was at the time cheeper than anywhere else 5 out of 5 stars because this did everything i needed it to...

stiffy249 26.11.2007 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of NETGEAR ProSafe JGS524 - switch - 24 ports

Why not Switch

Advantages: Accepted all over, no charge for using it
Disadvantages: very few stores accept it

...If like me, you like to know you have something to rely on when you need it most, but dont like the thought of carrying round a cheque book and gaurentee card, then may be a switch card is just up your street. a very high percentage of retail outlets such as restaurants, hotels, garages and cinemas now widely accepte switch and there are several very big high street banks that offer the facility, and one of the major advantages is being a form of plastic card. it is possible to pass this card over for payment, or even to quote the details (ie: card number, expiry date, issue number as well as your own details) via telephone or on a web site to purchase goods on-line. you will usually be asked to sign a receipt and will also be given a copy to keep for your own records (for any 'off-line' purchases.) it is worth holding on to these...

carl_1_uk 10.07.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Switch

Jeeeeeeese thats fast...

Advantages: Better than a hub, Well priced
Disadvantages: Only 5 ports, yet another damn power adapter!

...lights (also tells you the current load (%) on the network), but was just too slow when copying large files from machine to machine (like when I need to install or copy a windows service pack onto a machine (100megs worth!) Actually, its not that slow, but in this day and age, I want it copied and I WANT IT NOW! So patiance is not one of my more exercised virtues... Along comes the Linksys 5 port switch. Firstly, While wondering through PC World (yes, I know), I started to look and the hubs, hoping a 100BaseT would catch my eye for next to nothing. Well, that didn't happen. There were some nice 3Com hubs, but for a 100BaseT, I was looking at over £100. Then something caught my eye. It was screaming 200Mbs at me and was only £70. I picked up the box with trembling hands, it was not a hub, it was a switch...I had heard of these, but...

Hecatixleef 06.08.2002 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Linksys EtherFast Dual Gigabit with 24-Port 10/100 Switch - switch - 24 ports

I'm still scratching. Hey Watchit.

Advantages: Fast, tiny, attractive, cool, compatible, compliant
Disadvantages: Not enough ports (but then it is a 5 port), a little more expensive than similar units by others

...I?ve been scratching my head for hours, wondering what anyone can say about a piece of equipment that simply works, and I have to admit I?m still scratching. Hey ? watchit! I can?t think of anything I have ever owned that is more reliable. It does exactly what it is supposed to, which is to act as a conduit through which a collection of computer network enabled devices will work. The Linksys Etherfast 5 Port Switch has 5 x 10 or 100mbps autosensing RJ45 ports for use in a Category 3 or 5 cabled environment, utilising 10BaseT, or 100BaseTX switched half and/or full duplex, technology in a star network topology. The bus topology, which utilises BNC connectors, is not directly supported. (Note: Cat3 cabling = 10BaseT only.) So if used correctly it is as fast as the technology allows. I cannot think of a single reason why it...

RobAnt 31.07.2002 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Linksys EtherFast Dual Gigabit with 24-Port 10/100 Switch - switch - 24 ports

Ideal switch for the small business or developers

Advantages: Easy to set up, configure and use
Disadvantages: None

...We currently run an 80 user network in our office. While the main traffic of our network is handled by 6, 24 port rack mounted switches, my little IT office has 7 PCs in it with not enough ports on the wall to connect them up. this poses a problem. To connect to our network, you need a network connection on the Wall. There are 4 connections in our office and 7 machines. Obviously 7 into 4 does not go so a solution was needed. The answer? A small desktop based switch that would allow us to connect up to 16 computers to one Network connection on the wall. The Product? Well we use Netgear equipment in our office because you know with Netgear, you are buying quality at an affordable price. So we opted for the FS116 Desktop Switch. The size of it? Well its about an inch high and about a foot long. It is about 6 inches from...

andycharger 06.05.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of NETGEAR ProSafe FS116 10/100 Desktop Switch - switch - 16 ports