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| Thread ID: 43983 | 2004-04-03 05:47:00 | Networking Switch or Hub? | jerry_23 (3745) | Press F1 |
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| 226835 | 2004-04-03 05:47:00 | I am in the market for a 10/100 switch at the moment, and thought I knew everything about hubs and switches, until I started coming across 'switching hubs', or 'switch hubs'. Are these devices acutually hubs, or switches? Someone told me they are both, but how can that be since a hub is a broadcast device, whereas a switch is dedicated? If there is any such thing, are they better or worse than a straight-out switch? |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 226836 | 2004-04-03 12:25:00 | I think it is a case of the marketing lad's thinking they are on to a winner. They're probably right. You can see the same sort of double speak with switches and routers. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 226837 | 2004-04-04 02:47:00 | check the specs for the "switching hubs" if it has ram then its a switch if it has no ram then is a hub. a hub is dumb and will pass all data. a switch has a little smarts and uses RAM to store data before passing to the right port. a router has a lot of smarts and can be configered to pass any data anywhere. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 226838 | 2004-04-04 03:22:00 | If the word "switch" appears, the hubs will be switches . ;-) "Switching hubs", "hub switches", "switches" and "hubs" are all "hubs" (or "multiport repeaters") . But hubs are just hubs; switches are hubs with more brains . Marketing droids who try to confuse the customers have no brains . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 226839 | 2004-04-04 06:03:00 | Oh ok. Yes, I'll check out that Ram thing... Thanks fellas. :) |
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