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Originally posted by tha 4NiK8R:
Don't try to impress me by saying you are using a NetGear HUB...first of it is a HUB. I have been working with networking equipment for years and Bay Networks is known far and wide to make garbage. It is cheap for a reason. Go into major corporations and ask their Network Engineers what kind of SWITCHES they use and if they are using Bay it is because management made it so. If you are too slow to get my point I am telling you that using a HUB in and of itself is not too bright. Let me explain it to you in simple terms: Hubs operate at Layer 1 of the OSI model while Switches operate at Layer 2. Which means(here is the good part) that hubs, like the people who spend money on them, are stupid. Hubs may say they are 100base but if you are using 20 ports that is 5mbps per port(24=~4mbps). A switch on the other hand gives dedicated bandwidth to each port meaning that EACH port gets 100mbps. Routers operate at Layer 3, but since I believe I have already brought enlightenment to the pagans I will digress. From now on do some homework before you jabber :P :eek:
The difference between hubs and switches is not the way they share bandwith. Hubs broadcast to every port when it recieves a packet. This creates many collisions and decreases bandwith. Switches poll each port and get the MAC address on each port. Then when a packet comes it looks at the destination and forwards it to the correct port.