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Offline bbond007

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Re: help me design my wired home network.
« Reply #14 from previous page: November 02, 2011, 03:06:51 AM »
Quote from: freqmax;666191
Rather:

A hub repeats everything from any node to all nodes on the network. (bad)

A switch is a smart hub that only repeats wire packets to ports on the appropriate port.

A router exchanges high level traffic between different networks. (slow)


It all gets a little convoluted, for example my wrt54g is both a router and a switch (or at least a hub).
 

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Re: help me design my wired home network.
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2011, 03:56:21 AM »
WRT54g is raher a switch and radio-AP that has a router in between them. In a way several boxes on the same circuit board.

Most hubs are gone.