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Difference betweena switch and a hub?

Informative link. I use a hub at home, and have been thinking about moving to a switch. Hubs to slow 🙂
 
hubs arent actually slower, in the way they work, they are just stupid. A hub works on the physical layer of the OSI model, and simply reroutes bits. A switch however segments a collision domain because it works on the data-link layer of the OSI model. It looks/segments all packets which makes it smarter but a tiny bit slower. The plus to a switch is that it slows network congestion. For an individual computer, yes a switch is better and faster because it provides a user/client with the theoretical full bandwidth despite the packet switching, whereas in hubs, the users/clients share the bandwidth.
 
switches are excellent for lan parties....if ur interested in them

people are always transferring files and lagging the gamers. with switches, that doesn't happen.
 
Simple answer:

You have a 5 port switch that runs at 100MB.
The 100mb is divided amongst all the available ports.

With a 5 port switch running at 100mb each port has full 100mb access specifiicaly for it.


Something like that
🙂
 


<< You have a 5 port switch that runs at 100MB.
The 100mb is divided amongst all the available ports. >>



u mean 5 port hub 🙂
 
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