Hubs/switches

2000-09-16 Thread Ken Gillett
Some time ago there was a question on this list that concerned the use of a 10/100 switch or hub. There was a reply stating that a dual speed hub would only work at the speed of the slowest connected device. So a mix of 10 and 100 devices would cause all to run at only 10 mbps. At the time I

Re: Hubs/switches

2000-09-16 Thread jakob krabbe
Thanx for your input. What exactleyt are you saying!? We used to had that problem and it turned out that Mac OS was the failing part. We bought a 24 port Intel 10/100 switch and Mac OS got all screwed when it came to AppleTalking. I eventually solved it by putting a "software beak" making 100

Re: Hubs/switches

2000-09-16 Thread Jim Grisham
A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb group to the 10Mb group. Jim jakob krabbe said, in a previous message: Thanx for your input. What exactleyt are you saying!? We

Re: Hubs/Switches

2000-09-16 Thread Garth Fletcher
Jim Grisham wrote: Subject: Re: Hubs/switches From: "Jim Grisham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:55:38 -0500 (CDT) A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb group