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Anonymous   11-16-2001 at 08:25:15 PM

I got an email from Intel marketing this morning. They'll sell me Intel® PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapters for $65 each. Got me thinking, hmmmm. So over at pricewatch the least expensive switch for this I found was an Asante something or other for like $900. Well I could probably afford the adapters, and wire, but the dang switch is well out of my budget. Any body know of something in the say $0-200 range? Or maybe you have an idea to get this 3 system home LAN together on Giga without switches?

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Ron_Jeremy   11-17-2001 at 08:06:27 AM
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Buy 2 of the Intel cards & a crossed-over CAT5e/CAT6 cable. You will connect the machines with giga cards. In 1 of those machines add a second 10/100 card to access Net.

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Ron_Jeremy

If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.

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Arrow   11-17-2001 at 09:17:41 AM
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I thought he wanted to hook 3 computers up, not 2?

Rob
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Ron_Jeremy   11-17-2001 at 09:36:35 AM
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Oops. I guess he'll need 2 more giga cards.

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.

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Anonymous   11-18-2001 at 06:59:45 PM
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Ah multiple cards per PC, except the one on the end. Thta's kind of ugly, but does save money. Too bad no switches.

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