Advantages: Performace at an excellent price Disadvantages: 4 ports may not be enough
No, no, not like your Switch card or Visa card... You're in the Networking section now :-)
Although I'm sure if you're reading this you have SOME idea about networking, I will explain first the basic difference between a switch and a hub (Network experts please forgive the following paragraphs)
>>> A hub will usually work at an elementary level, making a verbatim copy of all data it receives on each of its ports to all of its other ports. As you ... ...80% of all its output is completely redundant (reaches a destination that simply ignores it)
>>> A switch is a LITTLE more intelligent. A switch will check the unique "MAC" address that the data is destined for, and assuming it has seen the machine that that MAC address belongs to connected to one of its ports, it will pass on received data to that one port only. To add to this, Switches can support "Full-Duplex" networking, which means sending ...
one47 09.07.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of NETGEAR ProSafe FS105 10/100 Desktop Switch - switch - 5 ports
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