An active hub is a multiport repeater. You can usually tell an active hub from a passive hub by whether or not it uses its own power supply.
-dan On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Kevin Goad wrote: > It depends on what kind it is. Intelligent hubs or repeaters will > retransmit a signal, but the cheap home network hubs don't. > > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 05:16, Randall Oshita wrote: > > Will a switch or HUB act as a repeater? > > Thanks > > > > Randall > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >