[plug] OT: 10/100 hubs

[Travis Read]

I have a Kingmax "switching hub". In my opinion, thats a contradiction in
term as a hub and a switch are two totally different devices. Either way,
it seems to give you 100Mbit per port. However, if you plug a 10Mbit
device it, the whole network starts to go a 10Mbits.... This is a pain

Stick with the netgears, even if they are a little more expensive.

Trav

On 10 Apr 2001, Adam Ashley wrote:

> On 10 Apr 2001 15:36:04 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > While thinking about buying hardware for a home network, the following
> > question came up: Do all 10/100 hubs do speed translation between a
> > device on one port at 10 Mbit and a device on another port at 100 Mbit,
> > or do some of them only handle all 10 Mbit devices or all 100 Mbit
> > devices? Is this sort of translation a standard feature of 10/100 hubs,
> > or something one needs to look for?
> > 
> 
> you can't go past the netgears. Got a Netgear DS108 running here which
> is autosensing 10/100 per port, got three systems running at 100 and the
> other 5 at 10 works great. and at most places the prices is pretty
> reasonable.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 

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