[mythtv-users] myth on separate subnet

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 13:23:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kevin Bailey
<ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:19:44PM -0500, Mark wrote:
>> I can appreciate the sentiment.  I don't really agree though.  There's a
>> huge difference
>> in quality between a switch from best buy and a cisco, or other
>> enterprise equipment.
>> The older I get, the more I appreciate things not made in china for the
>> lowest possible
>> cost because I'm starting to realize that a lot of the stuff I want to
>> get done in life isn't
>> going to get done, and what time I have left, I don't want to spend
>> troubleshooting
>> network issues.  These are just tools to get things done, not a labor of
>> love. Anyways, that's my viewpoint.
>
> I totally agree with the blech! China sentiment (for more
> reasons than just quality) but realize that these boards all use
> the same off-the-shelf Broadcom chip. Ok, I'm speculating on
> the vendor but the idea is that these bridging chips can run
> without CPU assistance nowadays. Spoken like a true software
> guy, if it can run without software, its intrinsically more
> reliable. ;-) Oh, and that Cisco switch was manufactured in
> China too. :-(

If it cannot be made in China, it does not really exist :)


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