Cheap Network Tap?

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Has anyone tried or got something like this to work?

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I have a friend who is going to try to get showeq working and he doesn't have any old hubs laying around, or is there a cheaper alternative on the networking side to monitor eq ports? I have a commercial cisco switch and i configured a SPAN port. I know there are amazon items for ~$100 that are powered taps but was wondering if the $10 thing would work. Thanks.

I am also interested to see if this work, please update us.

Mean time, I order this at amazon. Should work it has mirroring ports. I will get it on Friday, will update here if it works, 5-port.

NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS108Ev3)

NETGEAR 5-Port Gigabit Smart Managed Plus Switch (GS305E)