I've got three of their FA310 adapters and a 4-port FE104 hub for my 100BTx segment. It's cheap, though there are cheaper ones, and the adapters work at both 10 and 100 Mb rates. The hub does not handle both speeds, though, and it does not do full duplex. I don't think the adapters do full duplex either. I've been satisfied with this hardware, since it was cheap a couple of years ago when I got it (boards were under $40 and hub was $175. It's true, the hub is really small (abut 1/10 the size of my Thomas Conrad hub) but it does require externally transformed power. If you can justify it, a switching hub, capable of full duplex would perhaps be nicer, since you then don't have to string two hubs where one will do. It really does depend on the size of your LAN, though. A switching hub enables you to unify your setup onto a single logical segment so, unlike my setup, you only need one adapter in each box. I have two in the server, one for fast ethernet, and one for standard. When I started out, I had 15 stations, 1 Netware server, 3 boxes running Win/DOS, Win9x,NT, (interchangeably) and 11 running versions of *nix. I've eliminated all the *nix boxes and replaced them with a single one running NT or whatever is on the interchangeable drive. It's been 2-3 months since the last time I booted one of the *nix setups. With them out of the picture, the LAN is much more manageable. The only problem is finding a TCP/IP handler for DOS that isn't bigger than the NETWARE shell. If it's 500 bytes bigger, my essential DOS applications don't work for lack of low memory. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:35 PM Subject: Totally OT: Netgear Hubs and Switches