On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:56:53PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> >Only if you have a 10/100 switch that works fine. > > Which from my experience means more 100baseT networks. > > >On a 10/100 Hub all ports will drop to 10 MBit/s and the network will > >be slow. Also all Windows PCs will probably have to be rebooted or > >even manually switched to 10 MBit/s in the configuration. > > I have never seen a 10/100 hub. If you want a 10baseT hub then surely you'd > just buy one and not pay more for an expensive 100baseT hub only to use it as > 10baseT! That is not true with modern hubs. You can get a 10/100 hub that works like this: It has a 10Mbps segment and a separate 100Mbps segment. The hub has an internal 2-port switch that connects both segments. I have a 3COM 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card for my Dell Inspiron laptop. It works fine at 10MBps or 100Mbps. It uses the 3C575 module driver. > >??? Where from? A switch? Mixed 10/100 MBit networks are > >expensive. Its much cheaper to buy a second network card and setup one > >linuxbox as gateway, if linux is present, than to have a switch. And > >if you have only 100 MBit cards you won�t have 10 MBit switch or > >gateway ready. I think that mixed 10/100 Hubs are not that expensive. They are usually around $200 for 16 ports. Greetings, Alexis Maldonado Engineering College University of Costa Rica
