[aus.wanted] 10baseT Hub Prices

andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh) (04/22/91)

A couple of people mailed me asking where I got the pricing to support the
statement "10baseT hubs are getting down to the $50 per port range", which
I made in a posting about a week ago. I had to hunt around and find the ad,
and I have been distracted with other mundane thing like actual WORK, so I
haven't answered until now.

There is a place advertising 10baseT hubs for $695, which they say have 14
ports. After reading the ad a little closer, I saw that they really only
have 12 ports, and an AUI port, and a BNC "port". My guess is that the
AUI/BNC are actually the same port. We have a DigiBoard Terminal Server
which has two ports on the back, but you switch between them depending on
the media (cable) you are using. They aren't two ports. Just like on the
back of a 3com card.

So 12 ports, plus the one for cascading gives you a price of just under $60
per port, given shipping and such.

By the way, the ad is in the back of LanTimes.

Does anyone else have some prices to 10baseT? Try to keep the postings from
becoming too "salesy".


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