Network speed with hubs @ lan partys SOMEBODY HAS 2 KNOW!!

[Viperoni]

I was thinking of getting a trio of 12 port D-Link 10bt, half fuplex, hubs.
Hooking them up with the cascading (rj-45) ports, and using them all at the next lan party.

My only question is how slow will it be?
Assuming 25 ppl are gaming and the other 11 are doing something else....
what kinda pings can I expect to see?

obviously I don't have too much experience with this kinda stuff..
help me out plz!

 

[Viperoni]

Please?

 

[Helevitia]

Well, assuming there are 10 connections on each hub, the main bottle necks will be the connections in between the hubs. You have 10 people on a hub and if they were to theoretically trasmit data all at the saem time to the next hub of users, and you only had one connection between the hubs, then it would probably cause some slowdown. Also, keep in mind that with each user being added to the hub, you are taking up bandwidth. Remember that this is a 10/half hub and each user is connected at 10/half so you have to share 10Mbps between 10 users who all have a fair share of transferring data. There is so much more to this but this is the basic idea. Hope this helps.

Dave

 

[busmaster11]

wait... how do you have 36 people on 3 3-port hubs?

 

[Viperoni]

sorrry, supposed to be 3 12port hubs = 36 users

 

[rigor2]

you really want a switch with the type of traffic you're dealing with. lotsa small packets will collide in hub-hub-hub configuration and create lag.

 

[Braxus]

with 36 people you should consider getting a switch. gonna get a lot of collisions if they start to pump out data.

 

[Viperoni]

Right now I'm looking at a 24port 3com switch.
24-10mbps ports and 1-100mbps port, for the server
plus I can always get the Dlinks to cascade

 

[abracadabra1]

you need a switch no doubt about it.
you're going to get so many packet collisions that the pings will be no lower than 60 or 70 and w/ about 10%pl. not good!
get your self a switch...hook up the 100mb portion to your server and have the hubs connected to the switch at 10mpbs. should give you no packet loss and 10 and under pings.
GL!

 

[Viperoni]

Okay, switch it is