Very nice hub, bit pricey though (Netgear DS104)

Member Name: JammyB

Product:	Netgear DS104
Date:	25/03/01 (383 review reads)
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Advantages: High quality, fast, all round decent hub

Disadvantages: Costly

The DS104 is a decent hub, but ultimately you need to think about what you're using it for.

My friends and I bought this hub bewteen us for our LANS, with 4 ports it accomodates us, though we also have an 8 port version (DS108).

The hub does a smooth 100mbps which is good enough for any LAN party or general office use. We found it easy to set up, just take it out of the nice box, plug it into the wall, plug your comptuers in and off you go.

The hub has hundreds of LED's so you can monitor it's activity and see when someone is lagging your game of Quake2, stealing all your mp3s :)

The hub is high quality and does exactly what it sets out to do very well. My only complaint is that it doesn't have an on/off switch, but nevermind.

The only question when buying this hub should be, "do I really need this or would I be better off with a cheaper 10mbps hub?". My other hub (D-Link) works just as well, and for a cheaper price, so think first before you splash out.

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