Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: HUB or switch

  1. January 18th, 2002, 05:31 PM #1
    sun7dots
    sun7dots is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jan 2002
    Posts
    227

    HUB or switch

    hi guys

    I'm here with another newbie question for u Our home LAN (4 computers and one server) is now connected using BNC. We'd like to change it to TP connection. My question is if we should buy HUB or switch. (I don't know what is the difference between these two things...) So if anyone knows...



    Thank you very much for all answers...
  2. January 18th, 2002, 05:38 PM #2
    gold eagle
    gold eagle is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2001
    Posts
    1,193
    What are your goals?

    hub and switches both will do but if you want to have generally faster throughput get a switch. (be sure your nics are set to right speed or you'll forego performance)

    Hubs are super cheep. diffs are bcast domain and traffic degradation due to traffic out all ports. If you want to do sniffing get a hub.

    switch keeps table on who is to be found where and sends traffic host to host. chk on backplane speed and port guarantee rate.

    there's more but gotta go.

    good luck
    Trappedagainbyperfectlogic.
  3. January 18th, 2002, 05:40 PM #3
    Tedob1
    Tedob1 is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    4,785
    A hub will satisfy all the needs you've indicated and is much cheaper than a switch.
    A switch is much faster than a hub and is usually needed in high volume networks.





    T€ÐØß1
    Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”
  4. January 18th, 2002, 05:48 PM #4
    VictorKaum
    VictorKaum is offline
    Senior since the 3 dot era
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    1,542
    If you are planning to organise some LAN parties you better go for the switch... if you only use your network for print/websurfing/little file access : go for the hub.
  5. January 18th, 2002, 08:48 PM #5
    KorpDeath
    KorpDeath is offline
    Priapistic Monk KorpDeath's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2001
    Posts
    2,628
    If you can't switch it, pitch it!

    There are very few reasons these days to use a hub. Cheapp isn't an excuse anymore, cause there are some REALLY inexpensive switches out there.

    Why a switch, because you can, that's why.
    Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
    - Samuel Johnson
  6. January 25th, 2002, 09:58 AM #6
    Pooh-Bear
    Pooh-Bear is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    276
    For those out there with a 10Mb internet connection and a lan, get the switch. Why is this? Well a hub runs at a "set speed", that means either 10 or 100Mb, a switch can run both at the same time.
    Dear Santa, I liked the mp3 player I got but next christmas I want a SA-7 surface to air missile
  7. January 26th, 2002, 09:50 AM #7
    magic1
    magic1 is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2001
    Posts
    111
    SWITCH is much better

    between a Ferrari and a Fiat choose always ferrari
    If God had intended
    Man to program,
    we would be born
    with serial I/O ports.
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules