Pros: Great kit for networking with everything you need! Cons: None that I'm aware of!
I'll be the first to tell you that I don't know a lot about networking but this kit makes it so easy that even someone like myself can do it! I must admit that because of my lack of knowledge, I was a little nervous about doing it by myself but with a...
Pros: Cheap, 100% practical, excellent build quality Cons: Only 10MB
The DS104 hub is a standard 10MB 4 port network hub. It comes as the basic component of many of the Netgear card/hub packages and will server you well.
Currently I've used and worked with 4 of these little beauties over the past 1.5 years and...
I have the 4 port hub, and I have found this hub to be the easiest to use. I bought the linksys hub first, and I'm not a networking genius, so I couldn't figure out how to Internet share. After some research and returning the linksys and buying the...
Pros: Easy to install Cons: Non that I can think of
I bought this network kit to play multiplayer games (i.e. quake, half-life, etc.). It is one of the best decisions I've ever made. The cards were simple to install, and the guy i talked on the phone when something went wrong was friendly and exceedingly...
Pros: Affordable, easy installation, and easy to upgrade. Cons: Only 10Mb/s with hub, but easy to upgrade to full 100Mb/s.
About a year and half ago, I decided to network the 2 computers I had laying around with my main system. I was studying for my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) certification, and decided it was time to implement a home network for myself. Not...
Pros: Easy, great customer service Cons: incomplete package
Having 3 computers in the house led us to consolidate printing options with a LAN. I worked in the College Computer Lab and Netgear was recommended as a reliable mid-range network setup. My husband and I installed it in our computers in less than 30...
Pros: Reliable Network Ferrari with an automatic transmission Cons: Nitpicky stuff (see tips in epinion)
If you are looking at starting a home network and don't know were to go, let me show you the starting line. This is and good kit and I have some tips that make it GREAT!
If you have 2 operating machines with PCI card slots (A Pentium class...
Pros: works great Cons: took some time to figure out the internet sharing part
Our family had 2 computers but only 1 phone line and didn't want to spend the extra money getting another phone line. We looked around and chose the Netgear SB104 starter kit. It was easy to install and we got our computers networked right away. Then we...
Pros: Peripheral Sharing, Multi-Player Games Cons: None
I picked up the Netgear SB104 network kit when I saw an add for it at one of our local office supply stores, the price was too good to pass up. I'd been considering networking my computer with my son's for a while and this provided the opportunity. The...
Pros: fast ,easy setup, great for sharing connections Cons: some computer knowledge needed
I have had this hardware for almost a year now. I Really like it. Me and my wife are in home computer junkies and were fighting over the phone line all the time. So we bought this hardware and read on how to connect the two computers to one internet...
I have the 4 port hub, and I have found this hub to be the easiest to use. I bought the linksys hub first, and I'm not a networking genius, so I couldn't figure out how to Internet share. After some research and returning the linksys and buying the...
Pros: Quality Hardware, Quality Support Cons: none
The Netgear SB104 Network Starter Kit was the best small investment I have made this year. The kit contains the everything you need to network 2 PCs and includes an Ethernet Hub that can accept up to two additional PCs or 1 PC and another Ethernet...
Pros: Price, ease of installation, driver support Cons: Speed
I bought this kit about 6 months ago for $60. I'm not sure what the price is now. I'll talk about each piece at a time. The network cards are Netgear's FA310TX. These are 10/100 mbps PCI network cards. The hub has 4 ports and is 10 mbps.
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