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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Pros: Easy install, high quality, 10/100 mb sensing, uplink to add another hub if needed...
Cons: None

Everything you need to start your first network or to upgrade a failing one. High quality and reliable!

I started my first Win95 network 2 years ago. I bought some $25 cards and connected the two together peer to peer. It took about 12...

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: 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: Inexpensive, easy set up, low cost
Cons: Documentation on setting up the actual network is skimpy

If you want a basic run down of the components for this product, I recommend "elegiac." He has been quite thorough in his recommendations and specifics. I strongly agree with him.

I run two desktops and two laptops in my home,...

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: 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...