[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc713n$j0g$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> On 2013-01-04 11:11:04 +0000, Paul Sture said:
> 
> > Basically unless Gigabit or 1000 was somewhere in the product
> > name or prominent in the description, 10/100 was what you would be
> > getting.
> 
> Don't bet on that "somewhere in the product name", as the marketeers 
> have co-opted that approach.  There are now a number of Ethernet 
> switches around with some variation of GbE in the product name, and 
> these switches can have one or two GbE ports, or a GbE uplink port, or 
> a GbE-compatible SFP extra-cost add-on option, or some combination of 
> these, and with the rest of the jack-holes on the box maxing out at 100 
> MbE.

Thanks for the warning.  Experience has taught me to read the fine 
print, and preferably look up the technical specs before I buy.  
Different flavours are available in different countries too, just to add 
a bit of spice to the quest.

> Though if you're faced with one and perversely inclined, then IT 
> gets the GbE port and the riff-raff get the slow-holes.

I experienced that last year from the wrong side of the fence :-(

-- 
Paul Sture