On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 21:48:50 -0600, Tillman wrote: > 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.
Not really. I had already taken that into account. With half duplex, only half of the ports can be sending at any one time :-) > For $50, the fact that they do so fairly reliably is amazing. Yes, I'm quite impressed too. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
