Hi there, the other day I found in my street two NuSwitch 224fc Network Peripherals ethernet switches/hubs which the neighbours didnt want and left on the side of the road. I found this on the net "
-wk41.nuswitch-FE224.html Product: NuSwitch 224c Hub - hybrid 10Base-T Hub & Fast Ethernet switch
Company: Network Peripherals (Milpitas, CA) Telephone: (408) 321-7300 Fax: (408) 321-9218 URL:
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10Base-T, Ethernet Description: A hybrid 10Base-T Hub & Fast Ethernet switch which integrates the equalvalent of four 10Base-T clusters or hubs ach supporting 6 Ethernet ports, with two Fast Ethernet uplink segments. The four 0Base-T clusters are fully switched. Provides a cost-effective migration path for existing 10Base-T users by supporting their existing network topology and providing a switched architecture for Fast Ethernet access to local servers, a high-speed backbone and/or increased Ethernet bandwidth for single desktop users. Designed to support the scaling bandwidth demands of today's high-performance client/server network infrastructure and collapsed backbone networks. The FE-224c is a full-featured intelligent 10/100 switching hub that complies with IEEE802.3 and IEEE802.3u Fast Ethernet standards. It provides two full-duplex 100Base-TX switching ports and 24 10Base-T ports, clustered in four integrated10Base-T repeaters. All switching ports feature a wire-speed learning function and a 4,096 MAC address learning table. NPI's parallel store-and-forward architecture makes it possible for delivery of throughput of 148,800 packets per second on the two 100Base-T ports and 14,880 pps on the four 10Base-T switching segments. "
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I was just wondering If anyone could come up with some good ideas for what I may be able to use these old ethernet switches for. I dont think i'll get much for them secondhand and I dont want to just throw them out they kinda look "sick" in my room. Anyways I was thinking I could use it for backing up files on different systems and possibly bewoulf clustering. I was wondering if anyone knows how well 10mbps LAN goes on a bewoulf cluster. The switches I have each have 24 10mbps ports so thats 48 10mbps ports all up and 2
100mbps ethernet connections on the rack which apparently is for interlinking switches/hubs and high(er) speed to a server (read above for more tech shit (sorry Im in a real hurry whilst typing this I have to be out the door in 5 mins.) So I was wondering is it really worth keeping these two NuSitch hubs. Ive never had my own network before so it would probably be useful as a testbed system. Have to leave the building I am in IMMEDIATELY I will write more later. (Im at a job agency its 5PM they have internet access theyre closing so im going to use a local Uni Library system I can as soon as I walk there. bye for now
Any thoughts much appreciated thankyou. (gotta go now, damn)