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THG Debuts Networking Guide

Posted by michael on from the orinoco-flow dept.

fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has opened their new site Tom's Networking. The name pretty much says it all."

37 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. It's good and all by Azadre · · Score: 5, Funny

    But can it help me network a beowulf cluster?

  2. Networking, by p5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Tom needs to learn about load balancing.

    1. Re:Networking, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It was down before the first post even appeared, this is destined to be some networking guide...

    2. Re:Networking, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Maybe Tom and his writers just need to learn _anything_. Props for being one of the first doing what they do but what they write is generally utter crap and often bias is obvious. And Tom's "business insights" are cringable.

    3. Re:Networking, by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe he could pour some liquid nitrogen on it and make it go faster?

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    4. Re:Networking, by oaf357 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I've got a really good idea for their next article.

    5. Re:Networking, by Serveert · · Score: 5, Interesting

      After reading his horrific review of Opterons I got the picture really quick: he doesn't know his head from his ass. Naively I emailed him asking for clarifications, it has been a month and he hasn't responded yet. Aceshardware and even anandtech are much better, more thorough and actually know what they're talking aobut.

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    6. Re:Networking, by bwdunn · · Score: 4, Informative

      The site is up and working. He's just pointing anyone linking from Slashdot to another index page. Try typing in the URL directly in a new browser:

      tomsnetworking.com/

      This isn't so dumb after all.

  3. Must I? I THINK SO by Bobby+Onions · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Hardware Guides Tom!

  4. The name pretty much says it all. by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does visiting the site apparently:

    This document contains no data

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  5. This week on Tom's Network Guide by __aawwih8715 · · Score: 5, Funny


    "This week we overclock the latest NIC's, and do a torture test to our site -- We will be linked to at slashdot."

    1. Re: This week on Tom's Network Guide by JagEsquire · · Score: 5, Funny

      This actually has me laughing on the floor.

      New site about Networking and the site is down. I lost my trust in Tom when he stopped making an informed decision and started saying that the people that advertise with him have the best products. Launching a Networking site that can't stay up under load just makes me laugh even harder and will make me never come back.

  6. Slashdotted. by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh well... There goes my faith in Tom's Networking Ability (Tm)

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  7. Not too good for their main audience I guess by Aliencow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I haven't seen the site since it doesn't load, but most people I know who are fans of Tom's Hardware are gamers who will tell you stuff such as "OMFG LOL!!!111 Did u see that burning athlon on tomshardware !? AHHAR ROFLELFELFLE" and who will never actually READ anything unless it's a chart with big colorful bars for FPS rates on video cards.

    1. Re:Not too good for their main audience I guess by the+unbeliever · · Score: 5, Informative

      The article and video in question was demonstrating poor AMD design quality, in that the AMD proc kept on going until the point of meltdown once the heatsink was removed, the p3 locking up completely, but no damage to the processor, and the p4 clocking itself down.

      Of course you can't run a pc without at the very least a heatsink on the CPU, but some die more gracefully than others.

      Signed,
      A Dedicated AMD FanBoy, regardless of heat issues.

  8. WARNING: PARENT REDIRECTS TO FOXNEWS! SICKENING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    SO GROSS!

  9. It's about time Tom branched into Dating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine TomsDating.com? He could rank all your potential mates with a variety of benchmarks, and even try overclocking them.

    1. Re:It's about time Tom branched into Dating by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried to tweaked one and I got punched in the face.

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    2. Re:It's about time Tom branched into Dating by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 5, Funny

      Was it because of your 3.5" floppy?

    3. Re:It's about time Tom branched into Dating by xkenny13 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Imagine TomsDating.com? He could rank all your potential mates with a variety of benchmarks, and even try overclocking them.

      Will they "go down" as quickly as this site did?

  10. I'll say it....... by USAPatriot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.

    But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!

    If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.

    Now for the informative part of by rant:

    try www.hardocp.com
    or
    www.anandtech.com
    or
    www.ac eshardware.com

    all 100% better than tom's

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    1. Re:I'll say it....... by Propaganda13 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, but the brains behind it is Tim Higgins.
      He made a great site called www.practicallynetworked.com which I believe he sold off then he went on to make www.smallnetbuilder.com,which he seems to have somehow combined with Tom.

      What will happen? I don't know, but at least give him a chance to go bad.

    2. Re:I'll say it....... by W2k · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Admittedly Anandtech write solid reviews, but HardOCP is run by an idiot with an ego problem. I would not rely on their reviews. As for Ace's, I don't visit it very often, so I've no opinion of it.

      ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this - some of them may very well be clean - but it's safest to assume this and never put your complete trust in a single site.

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  11. New methods for testing net gear by __aawwih8715 · · Score: 5, Funny


    Maybe tom will test new networking gear by being linked to by slashdot everytime he has a roundup.

  12. First review summary... by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    "In our benchmarks the 3C905C performed poorly, giving only 99.95Mb/s in our benchmarks. In contrast the FA311 (praise be to the advertisers) gave a flawless 99.99Mb and it definately the gamers network card of choice"

    "The fact that the rcom 3C905C stops if you put it in a microwave to 10 minutes then stamp on it, means that the FA311 (praise be to the advertisiers) is the only usable network card in its class"

    1. Re:First review summary... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Informative

      I don't know about 100 cards, but there are notable differences in how well gigabit cards operate, differing by as many as hundreds of megabits a second of performance at times. And wireless networking components can be tested for packet rates and speeds given differing distances and base stations.

      I do admit that there is too high of a risk of advertisers having an influence on review methodology.

  13. Dear Tom by KU_Fletch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congrats on the nwe site, please accept its first slashdotting with our regards.

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  14. /.ed - it is more like by HashDefine · · Score: 5, Funny

    TomsNotWorking.com

  15. Says it all? by martinde · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it a blog about the people that Tom has met in his social network? If it's about computer networks, he's got a lot to learn since his site is now inaccessible ;-)

  16. Google Cache by armando_wall · · Score: 4, Informative

    The more slashdotted the site is, the more I wanna view it!!!

    Here's the google cache version of THG, for the impatient people like me.

  17. Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.

    The worst part is, is that you seem genuine about this. Next up on Tom's Networking!

    35k USD Cisco 64 port switch vs 35k USD 64k port 3Com switch! 10+ of explanation why you need one! With 20+ Win32 benchmark tools! 40+ horizontal bar graphs! 60+ pages on senseless bullshit! 80+ of advertisements! Next up, Tom's Applied Mathematics, Tom's Psychological Profiling and Tom's Taxidermy! YAY!

    I'd rather read somethingawful.com articles on networking. "Cliss Yablonksi hates stateful firewalls" and "Photoshop Phriday: Your IPv6 implementation vs The Hulk!" sound quite interesting!"

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  18. Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Your site is considered journalism by many."

    I hope to God you're kidding about this. Tom is about as credible and knowledgable as any random /. post.

  19. You know you're short of respect when... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A serious story about your tech site is posted on Slashdot, and the first six of the highest-scored posts are all "Score: 5, Funny."

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  20. Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 3, Informative

    I go to your site for good reviews

    Then you may wanna go to sites like arstechnica instead.
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  21. This used to be... by bwass24 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tom's "new" site is actually a buyout of the informative and well written smallnetbuilder.com. (www.smallnetbuilder.com) Too bad :( Apparently selling out to Tom was more satisfying than continuing to do a good job.

  22. Tom's is a fraud. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the problem with that Intel vs AMD CPU
    cookout video that Toms showed a while back was
    not AMD's fault at all. They claimed the AMD CPU
    will continue to run until it fries itself, while
    the Intel CPU used Speedstepping to cool itself
    down if needed.

    The problem with the video was that the CPU *DID*
    have an on core thermal diode... but Tom's
    PURPOSELY used an Athlon based motherboard THAT
    DID NOT SUPPORT IT. It was the fault of the
    motherboard maker and Tom's unsurprisingly
    selective choice of that motherboard... and that
    was why the CPU fried itself. Hello? Has anyone
    SEEN those CPU Shutdown Temp settings in the BIOS?
    I turned those on in my test rig and COULD NOT
    fry my AMD CPU.

    So much for Tom's "in depth" reporting. The guy's
    a total sell-out. (Which is obvious) But since he
    did the worst possible thing in the reporting and
    journalistic point of view: Changed the credits
    on articles previously written by another writer
    just to spite him. (Van Smith over at Van's
    Hardware.) Bad. I have absolutely no respect or
    trust for Tom's anymore and never will because
    of these two incidents... and there have been a
    few more. I'm sure other /. posters will
    eventually point them all out.

    Fuck it, I'll link the examples myself.

    Link One - Kyle from HardOCP's
    comment about Tom's misleading video.
    Found in the Ace's Hardware Forums.

    Link Two - Post taken from AMDZone
    posted on Ace's Hardware Forums about Tom's
    Hardware modifying Van's articles to credit a
    different author. Forum responses results in
    some additional info. Read through the threads.

  23. Looking for a Hardware review site... by OneArmedMan · · Score: 3, Informative

    ..... that is funny, informative and written by someone that acutaually knows what they are talking about without all the bullshit that you usually get. try DansData.com

    well just thinking, Dan tends to review more generic stuff than most guys, but he does have a sense of humour, and is very straight foward with what he thinks of things.