[ok-mail] [K12OSN] hub vs. switch

[John Hansknecht]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 06:26 am, Will Hatch wrote:
> I managed to get a couple work stations booted and my internet connection
> working through eth1, but I've been told that a switch will work much
> better than the Netgear 8 port dual-speed hub that I have been attempting
> to use to connect to eth0.  Can anybody verify this? Thanks! -Will

Will,

A hub is like an old fashion 'party' telephone line. Each computer attached to 
the hub must share a limited pool of bandwidth with all of the other 
computers attached. This means only one computer can talk at a time which 
will definitely increase the latency of your connections. I suspect, if you 
have a 100Mbps hub and only a very few clients you will 'get away with' this 
shared bandwidth. But expect the hub to limit your clients performance fairly 
quickly as you add clients.
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Thanks,

John

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