SuperQ;209717 Wrote: > there are a few really REALLY low-end gige hubs out there
I'm not real good with networking so I could be wrong about all this, but I really don't think they exist. I would be very interested to see such a beast if you can provide a link to one. Switching technology was mature and cheap by the time gigE came along, and although CSMA/CD is specified for gigE, to my knowledge it has never been done. Because the data rate is so fast, in order to do collision detection you would need a ridiculous amount of frame padding which would effectively turn a bunch of little chatty connections into a huge amount of link usage, thus tons of collisions. You'd be better off with 100Mbps switched! -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36169 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
