[geeks] Netgear Switches -- FS108 vs FS608

[Dan Sikorski]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:44, Kris Kirby wrote:
> Managment has approved us to buy a switch, and provided some
> recommendations (i.e.: pick any of these two.) but I'm in a quandry at the
> moment. I see that Netgar has the old, venerable FS108, and a newer
> plasticky looking cased FS608. If I remember statistics right, the FS5xx
> series is a true store-and-forward packet switch, while the FS1xx series
> will drop packets so as to prevent collisions. My question is whether the
> FS608 is a direct replacement for the FS108, or if the FS608 is actually
> the same switch in a cheaper case.

Anyone else have any problems with netgear switches and hubs?

At work, we used to buy netgear for everything, but not anymore.  We've
had problems with some of their stuff.  I don't recall model numbers,
but i know there's a model of 24 port rackmount 10/100 hub (1-3 years
old) that we've had problems with on multiple occasions.  Out of
probably 20 of them we've had in service, 3 of them had a problem where
they would pass no traffic between 10mbit and 100mbit devices on the
hubs.  Anything on 100mbit could talk to anything else on 100mbit, and
anything on 10mbit could talk to anything else on 10mbit.  Also, we have
a rackmount switch that has 12? 10/100 ports and 2 copper gigabit ports
that sometimes will pass traffic VERY slowly (~1mbit).  These units are
at multiple locations, so power issues are not likely the problem.

	-Dan Sikorski