NICS, HUBS and switches.

[PeterJonWhite at PeterWhiteCycles.com (Peter Jon White)]

According to 3Com, their 100/10 units operate at the higher speed of the 
two nodes communicating.

At 12:30 PM 6/24/00 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>Just a question. I plan to upgrade my home network to 100 baseT which will
>require a new hub, and at least 1 new NIC.  The question is can a 100Mbit
>hub support 100Mbits between 2 100Mbit NICS when one or both of the other
>hub ports are connected to a 10Mb NIC. Or will just the connection to a
>10Mbit NIC cause the entire network to run at 10. The issue is that the
>Alpha has an on-board 10Mbit NIC and another computer is idle most of the
>time.  I know I can do this with a switch, but that is an overkill.
>--
>Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
>Boston Linux and Unix user group
>http://www.blu.org
>
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