04-15-2002, 10:17 PM
For the most part, anything you buy for a typical home network is going to be identical to one another.
Big companies like Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, don't waste time making piss-ant products for consumer use since there is no margin in it. So what they do, is just buy the Netopia, and any other shitbag tiny company product and re-brand it.
So for the most part, you're just buying something that was made from one of about four different manufacturers (and they're pretty much the same thing also) but it's just got a 3rd party companies logo on it.
And there's also no reason to worry about getting top of the line patch cables when it's running 10 feet from the wall. Complete waste of money (though what, was it like $10)
Just get generic shit, and you'll be fine.
Big companies like Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, don't waste time making piss-ant products for consumer use since there is no margin in it. So what they do, is just buy the Netopia, and any other shitbag tiny company product and re-brand it.
So for the most part, you're just buying something that was made from one of about four different manufacturers (and they're pretty much the same thing also) but it's just got a 3rd party companies logo on it.
And there's also no reason to worry about getting top of the line patch cables when it's running 10 feet from the wall. Complete waste of money (though what, was it like $10)
Just get generic shit, and you'll be fine.