Re: exercise a hub

[Mike McCarty]

John Mahowald wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Mike McCarty  wrote:
> > Yes, indeed. Hubs are cheap these days. How much is your time
> > worth? Especially this is a 10 Mbps hub, not even a 100 Mbps.
>
> Heck, switches are cheap these days. And switches go faster as they
> route packets to their destination instead of broadcasting them to
> everybody.

I was pointing out that the hardware he was trying to prove was
not working was not worth the effort, and suggesting that he
just junk it.

I wasn't trying to suggest what he replace it with.

But your point is well taken. The switches don't actually go
faster (well, they do, because they'll be 100 Mbps :-)
but they do prevent collisions, which has the same effect.

Mike