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: 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...

Pros: Inexpensive, Effecient
Cons: Short Cables Hard to learn

This is the product I started building my first network with, and is still the product that I use for my network. Ok. I am not a professional, but I know my fair share about computers, and I am going to work on networks this summer. Netgears card are...

Pros: More than you need for a home network.
Cons: Can be misleading if think you are getting a 100 BaseT hub

I recently purchaced this product at a CompUSA. So far, it works just like a hub is supposed to work. It's kind of hard to say something good or bad about any particular networking product based on brand name. Instead, you have to look at what it...

Pros: Extremely easy to set up, complete high quality package
Cons: Not a one.

So you wanna be a network administrator. Well pilgrim, you're gonna need to know alot about computers, about IRQs, and your network protocols.....

No you don't. Not anymore

Home networking used to be what "Alpha...

Pros: cheap
Cons: only 10 Mbs which they do not disclose on the package

This will be a very short epinion.
I bought this kit because I quickly wanted to get a hub and did not do any comparison shopping. Get to FRY's electronics, in there, grab something, pay and out.
They did not carry any separate hubs (which...

Pros: easy to use
Cons: little more money

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 setup, everything included
Cons: Only 10mbps hub

I have been in networking field for 5+ years. I have always liked Netgear products, specially their Ethernet cards. After evaluating Netgear network starter kit I was happy that they are continuing their excellence in making home network kits for users....

Pros: ease of use
Cons: Couple more Bucks

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: Cheap, Easy to install
Cons: Not good for heavy traffic networks

For all you gamers out there, this is your real time death match need! If you and a couple friends want to get together for a LAN party, you all should go in and buy this cheap, easy to install network kit. The HUB that comes with this kit has four...

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...

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: Cheap, Easy-to-Install, Reliable
Cons: The hub is 10 Base-T

This Netgear starter kit is a great deal for beginners or experts who want a good deal on the items.

The kit comes with 2 10/100 Base-T Netgear network cards (NICs) and a 10 Base-T network hub as well as 2 25ft Ethernet cables, device drivers...

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...