[committee] action item reminders

Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri May 11 08:58:46 WST 2007


On Thu, May 10, 2007, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:25:47PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 May 2007, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > 
> > >Switches - even the equivalent D-Link costs more than the HP switch
> > 
> > Ok, I tell a lie, the D-Link 1224T can be had for $470, but the HP is 
> > available for $540 and is going to be infinitely less shit.
> 
> This is a 24x 1000mbit switch? Why is the price so good?

Because its targetted as a workgroup switch, not as infrastructure.
It only has a Web UI rather than CLI, and it has to be priced
low to compete with all the other bullshit quality gige workgroup
switches out there.




Adrian



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