is this rite ?

[ForsakenMaster]

i recently bought a hub a Linksys EEHUB16 for some home networking and print sharing.
A few friends of mine claim hubs have collision problems and hubs do not do NAT to allow your systems on home network to be use as servers, is this true with the hub i have bought ?

Secondly if so what do i need to make my network run properly ?
Also is this hub full duplex ?

 

[ktwebb]

Hubs are half duplex. They do not route. You could use one of your PC's as a host PC and share your internet connection out that way but if the hardware you bought is merely a hub, and nothing else, then you will not use it to route your internet connection to multiple PC's. You want a NAT router with integrated switched ports, though they don't HAVE to be switched.

 

[InlineFive]

In addition to switches supporting Full-Duplex transfers they have the ability to intelligently route information to and from two computers without bothering other computers on the networks. Where as hubs dumbly send the information to every single computer on the network severly degrading performance because of wasted bandwidth.

Hope this helps!

-Por

 

[ForsakenMaster]

Could you please recommend hardware for a simple 4 PC home network with print sharing.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Basic Networking.

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

Unless extensive traffic is an issue, hubs and switches will appear very similar in a typical home network, neither does NAT translation. The switch is desirable for the reasons previously mentioned, but a hub will work just fine. Obviously, if you're sharing a broadband connection, you'll want to have a broadband router in front of the hub to do the NAT translation.