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Switches & Hubs

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L8CS

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I have an oppurtunity to uprade a small business that my wife works at. They presently have three PC's that are networked through a 4 port NetGear 10/100 hub with dialup internet access through each PC. I just ordered them three Dell OptiPlex GX150's replacements for their Acer PII-350's and plan to upgrade their network. I'm working up a proposal to network another upstairs workgroup that has three standalone PC's into the downstairs workgoup but I'm confused about the configuration.

I have a general working knowledge about networking from having a home network using three PC's and a Linksys 4 port Cable/Dsl Router. I know there's an uplink on the router that allows internal linking to another hub in the network. You have to give up port # 1 when using the uplink which is fine, but am to assume that your're limited to one hub only as an uplink or can you plug another hub into port # 2 and run 2 hubs into the router?

I would like to plug both the upstairs and downstairs hubs into one 8 port Linksys BEFSR81 Cables/Dsl Router and give them Dsl service. What do you think😕
 
Sounds like you're in the right direction. If you don't have enough space on the hub, I think you should chuck the hub and get an 8-port switch. You can find some for pretty cheap over in the Hot Deals forum (about $50 or less after rebate). The main reason is that the switch can transfer data faster than the hub and is essentially "faster" and "smarter" than a hub. You can get a 8-port router or get a 1-port and have it uplink to a 8-port switch. Hope this helps.
 
I was trying to get away from having to dasiy chain the hubs or switches together because of wire pull length. I was hoping to run two uplinks from the Cable Router to 2 seperate hubs. From what I can glean from Linksys, I can either use a hub upstairs for one workgroup and then uplink that to the downstairs workgroup hub and then uplink that to the Cable Router. I was hoping to run 2 seperate hub uplinks to the Cable Router and not daisy chain because the Router is more centralized.

More than likely, I'll run 2 Linksys EtherFast 8 port switches for each workgroup and daisy chain those to a Linksys EtherFast Cable Router. That way I'll have full duplex speed over the network and more expandability.
 
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