At 9:36 AM -0400 7/9/01, H. Spencer Young wrote:
>Can someone give me a quick primer on the advantages of switches vs. hubs on
>a small appletalk network with about 20 machines using file sharing?
Switches are the most help where you do NOT have a single central
server. In such a situation most of the traffic is to/from the
server and the switch won't help for this. The exception to this is
the case where the server is 100BaseT and many of the clients are
10BaseT. Theoretically one 100BaseT server can, via a switch, feed
10 machines with 10BaseT and each gets the full 10Mbps bandwidth. A
dual speed hub combines all the 10BaseT together through a 10Mbps
connection to the 100BaseT side.
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Clark Martin
Macintosh Consultant
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