The POS switch does what it was meant to do - shorted to ground.

[HAL-42b]

Interesting guy from France. Also does teardowns of old Russian military electronics.

[Halcyon]

I know D-Link have tried to repair their reputation with their "business" class of networking devices (attempting to mimic HP and Cisco devices), but even in the 1990's, I avoided D-Link like the plague.
Their switches, routers, wireless access points and network cards are renowned in the industry as being slow, flakey and sub-standard at best.

If you're in the home market, at least spend the extra few dollars and get yourself a Netgear, Linksys even Netcomm for half-decent performance and reliability.

[cimmo]

This guy finds some amazing stuff - obscure Soviet military/aviation hardware in particular.
Anyone with even a passing interest in electronic teardowns needs to have his channel bookmarked.