On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch
> instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost
> any more.
Great advice. It looks like Cisco has even stopped listing hubs for sale
- layer two switching seems to firmly in control these days :-)
> I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a
> Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly
> decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of
> them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with
> sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be
> confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s. I believe the D-Link can do this
> speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a
> bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by
> collisions.
It's even worse than that. With full duplex being common, that switch
could theoretically have to cope with 1600Mb/s. For $50, the fact that
they do so fairly reliably is amazing.
- Tillman
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