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Linksys EFAH05W EtherFast 10/100 5-Port Workgroup Hub

Linksys EFAH05W EtherFast 10/100 5-Port Workgroup Hub

List Price: $58.99
Your Price: $31.84
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cheap, fast, easy....
Review: I wired my house about six months ago using one of these babies and it's worked like a breeze. It seems durable, reliable, has never been the source of any network difficulty, and, hey, cheap to boot. Can't hardly complain about that!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A totally flexible and reliable splitter
Review: I've used my hub for various applications - cable modem splitting from a router and simple PC-PC gaming. This hub is perfectly utilitarian for getting the data back and forth with high reliability and unparalleled speed. No problems auto-sensing in either situations over several months of use.

Though it does say 5 ports - if you use this as an uplink from the router, you'll obviously only get 4 output ports. This is not the case with the gaming issue though. The only minor complaint is the AC resistor power cable. The AC adapter plug is rather easy to yank out of the backside - especially if you are moving cables frequently. Other than that, it's worth every cent for high speed fun and efficiency!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Happy in Oregon
Review: It took about 10 minutes to open the box, Read the user guide, plug one cable from my Linksys DSL router and hook up two more computers to my network. No hassles no troubles and it works great.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's a hub
Review: It's a hub, I have three computers in my room, I can hook them all up and they all work. I'd call that a raging success.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Quick and relatively easy, BUT.....
Review: My review of this hub is tainted by the ease-of-setup aspect, not because I had any trouble with setting things up, but I can see how the beginnger might. I am a computer tech, and in curiosity I flipped through the documentation--very slight indeed. There was hardly any help at all, and it was mentioned as almost an aside that the port next to the connected uplink port just won't work. The novice user, with such sparse documentation, may have real trouble with this hardware. That being said, I very much like this hub--it's fast, there is no need for any bothersome firmware, and there have been no glitches since my initial purchase a month ago. Go Linksys!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's a hub
Review: the speed is too slow, even over a 100mb network, due to its broadcast nature. with switch price so low, buy a switch instead of this one.

size: 5
speed: 2
feature: 2
easy of use: 3

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: go buy a switch instead
Review: the speed is too slow, even over a 100mb network, due to its broadcast nature. with switch price so low, buy a switch instead of this one.

size: 5
speed: 2
feature: 2
easy of use: 3

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I'm very impressed
Review: This has been my secound experience setting up a small home network. The first involved an SMC router. The Linksys documention and overall user experience (setup guide, admin screens, and so forth) put the SMC materials to shame-- really it's night and day. Both routers seem to work fine (though the SMC unit conked out on me; I think this was a fluke.) But the Linksys' usability wins hands-down. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I'm very impressed
Review: This has been my secound experience setting up a small home network. The first involved an SMC router. The Linksys documention and overall user experience (setup guide, admin screens, and so forth) put the SMC materials to shame-- really it's night and day. Both routers seem to work fine (though the SMC unit conked out on me; I think this was a fluke.) But the Linksys' usability wins hands-down. Highly recommended.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: linksys etherfast 10/100 auto-sensing hub
Review: This hub is pretty good. A little on the light side, it might slide on the surface a little, but the hub does a nice job at controling the network. This hub is good for linking home computers to a single ISP (DSL or Cable)it will also let you share a dial up account, but your better off using it for some kind of broadband. On the account of being light weight you can use some kind of sticky mounts (Double Sided,The kind where all you have to do if pull on a tab and the adheasive should come right off with out damaging the surface).


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