NICS, HUBS and switches.

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Jerry,
	You will probably want to go with a switched 100mbit hub.  You
will get better performance out of the entire network.  The switch will
set a channel of packet between computers.  A regular hub will max out
whenever two 100mbit cards are in communication.

Anthony

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, 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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