[geeks] Cable modems/routers

[The Renaissance Man]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:39:15PM -0500, mrl wrote:
> Oh, and if I purchase a PCI cable modem, are there any gotchas? My dad
> is of the opinion that just because it's PCI, that doesn't mean that it
> won't require a power-cycle every once in the while (which of course
> means rebooting the entire machine), although that doesn't make much
> sense to me (as in, there's no way a card-manufacturer would put the
> thing on the market if it had a flaw like that, right?).

It never stopped a hell of a lot of manufacturers from putting internal
modems on the market that you couldn't reset except by bouncing the box.

> On a related note, one of our switches may be failing. Any suggestions
> on what to replace it with are welcome (in the 4-8 port range, nothing
> huge).

In unmanaged switches, I've had excellent results with Netgear.


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