[Noisebridge-discuss] maybe something else we don't want in the space

[grey]

So we've talked about not having CRT's donated, which I think is a
great idea.  But I've also been seeing a bunch of 10/100 hubs showing
up.  I don't know about the rest of you guys, but these things were
seriously out of date a decade ago, so unless someone is planning to
strip the tiny linklight LED's off them for projects I'd kind of
rather not see anything network gear like this showing up.  I don't
want to rule everything out, but if it's not some combination of:

switch
gigE or faster (10gigE anyone?)
with a possible exception of: if managed, 100Mbps still acceptable,
but managed gigE+ would be even nicer. ;)

Like, don't bring it.  We could be getting managed gigE switches for
not a ton nowadays and I think such a donation would be great (even if
it were some sub-$1000 soho managed gigE switch), but I really don't
see what good some 10/100 hubs are.

That said, maybe I'm wrong - if people want to build out little test
networks or something (which I think is a good idea) they'll come in
handy?  But even then, I'd rather see test networks with better
equipment.  Feel free to add your thoughts here, but is anyone else of
the same mindset that these old unmanaged hubs are as worthless as
crt's?

-grey