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I am planing the purchase of a 100base-T switch.

Hopefully, there exists an Ethernet switch with two 100Base-T ports
and four 10Base-T ports.

I plan to segment my current four 10Base-T concentrators into the
100Base-T switch and run the two 100Base-T ports out to my two servers
(Novell 4.10 file server / NT 4.1 application and internet server).

Problems:  
* I have only found switches with *one* 100Base-T port, four 10Base-T
* There are many to choose from....and no reviews to work from.
* My budget is limited to around $2000.00 CDN

Here is what I've found (so far), all have only one 100Base-T uplink:
* Asante ReadySwitch 5104 ~1700.00 CDN
* BayNetworks ??? (still looking for their four port switch!)
* SMC EZswitch EZ008Plus ~2100.00 CDN
  This one includes: five 10Base-T and two 100Base-T but is unmanaged.
  How important is the ability to manage a small network of under 
  100 nodes?
* SMC TigerSwitch 6508T-TX ~1600.00 CDN
* 3COM OfficeConnect Switch 140 - it's not rack mountable - what were 
  these engineers thinking??  ~1129.00 CDN

Also, I will need to purchase 10/100Base-T PCI network cards...so far
this is my short list of good(?) cards.
* 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI ~170.00 CDN (auto 10/100)
* AsanteFast 10/100 PCI ~180.00 CDN (auto 10/100 recognition?)
* SMC Etherpower 10/100 PCI ~190.00 CDN
* Kingston EtheRX 10/100 PCI ~110.00 CDN (cheap! but good?) 

Thank you for your assistance
PS. Please copy me via email at sconnell@dipix.com as it will be
(nearly) impossible to keep up on all these newsgroups.  
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