At 8:15 AM -0400 6/27/05, Daniel wrote:
Of course, the switch cannot magically create bandwidth, so if you
have 1 fileserver and 3 computers are accessing that fileserver at
the same time, they are sharing that 100Mbps link.
The beauty of a switch is that each port gets its own bandwidth and
its own port rate. That is the benefit of the switch over the hub,
which is a shared resource (all ports share the same bandwidth).
Exactly. The big advantage of a switch is when you have more than
one data path, 2 or more clients accessing two or more servers. If
most traffic is to/from a server then a switch doesn't help much.
This is because a switch allows multiple simultaneous data paths but
only between separate ports. If one port is in common to all (or
most) of the transfers it becomes the bottle neck.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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