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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:02:12PM +0100, John Daragon wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2003 18:48, paul wrote: > > What precisely is the difference between a hub and a switch, on ebuyer > > they got networking products, and you can get a switch and network card > > together. > > A hub just rebroadcasts all of the packets that arrive at each socket, and > (typically) requires all of the sockets to be running at the same speed > because it doesn't have anything flashy like memory. A switch, however, can > buffer frames, learns which NUA is on which port and routes packets more or > less intelligently. So they tend to support better-performing networks. > Because they can buffer data, they also get to handle (say) 10Mb/s and > 100Mb/s connections at the same time. A switch also tends to be able to handle full duplex connections and to allow multiple groups of ports to communicate at the same time. A hub is effectivly a multiport repeater, a switch is effectivly a multiport bridge. > > > > > I am using a router and hub and can play games over the network. > > > > > > One of the kids at the rugby club was asking me about networking, I am just > > not sure on the hub / switch difference, would friends be able to take > > laptops round and just plug in to the network. > > > > > > Also given the possible distance between his two computers, > > > > a) whats the max length of cat 5 we can use. > > erk. Isn't it 200m ? 100m is the absolute maximum cable length. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.