[ILUG] [OT] 100Mb switching hub

[Niall]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> cheap.  What's the catch?  What is the difference 
> between a hub and a switching hub?  Between a switch and
> a switching hub?

A hub shares the bandwidth between all its ports, whereas a switching hub
(I don't know that there's any difference between that and a switch, apart
from being more descriptive) gives the quoted bandwidth to each port.

If you have n clients and 1 server, there's not much difference, because
the server's bandwidth will be the bottleneck, but if you have
communication between more machines, then a switch is a win, as you
effectively have a full bandwidth connection between any two machines.

Regards,


Niall  O Broin