LinkSys Gigabit Switch Differences

LinkSys has two 8 port Gigabit switches
- EG0801W
- EG008W

It is not clear to me from their doc, how one is better than the other.

Any suggestions?

-- Harald

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:32:49 -0700, Harald Striepe <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>LinkSys has two 8 port Gigabit switches
>- EG0801W
>- EG008W
>
>It is not clear to me from their doc, how one is better than the other.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-- Harald

It should be quite clear:

EG0801W: 1 Gbps Full Duplex Switch Port and 8 10/100Mbps
Auto-Detect Half/Full Duplex Switch Ports
ie: the only gigabit link is the uplink port, the (8) client-side ports are
10/100 only.


EG008W: Eight 10/100/1000Mbps, half/full duplex, switched ports
This switch has eight ports. Connect them any which way you like, they are all
capable of gigabit operation.

cheers

/daytripper

Duh...
It would be nice, if the marketing verbiage in the data sheets was just a
bit more explicit...

But, still - I should have caught that.
Thanks...

-- Harald

On 8/24/03 1:06 PM, in article (E-Mail Removed),
"daytripper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:32:49 -0700, Harald Striepe <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> LinkSys has two 8 port Gigabit switches
>> - EG0801W
>> - EG008W
>>
>> It is not clear to me from their doc, how one is better than the other.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -- Harald
>
> It should be quite clear:
>
> EG0801W: 1 Gbps Full Duplex Switch Port and 8 10/100Mbps
> Auto-Detect Half/Full Duplex Switch Ports
> ie: the only gigabit link is the uplink port, the (8) client-side ports are
> 10/100 only.
>
>
> EG008W: Eight 10/100/1000Mbps, half/full duplex, switched ports
> This switch has eight ports. Connect them any which way you like, they are all
> capable of gigabit operation.
>
> cheers
>
> /daytripper