HELP NEEDED with LAN

Ice Cold · 05-19-2001, 19:31 | posts: 6,371 | Location: belgium

what's the difference between a LAN HUB and a LAN SWITCH 
they both have a number of ports that support 10 or 100Mbps 
 
and what's the difference between a managed one and a unmanaged one ? does the managed support using Cross-over cables ? 
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Dave · 05-19-2001, 20:33 | posts: 8,447 | Location: Lost in boxes

I dunno a thing about lans. But by definition a switch would let one thing have access at a time. A hub would allow all to have access.

05-24-2001, 08:28 | posts: n/a

a switch forwards packets only to the port of the destination while a hub is only a mutiport repeater. a HUB sends everything everywhere. The switch can segment your LAN creating less collisions and direct speed. a hub shares all the speed and has more collisions.

Malachim · 05-25-2001, 02:32 | posts: 1,337 | Location: US

Scap hit it o nthe head <IMG SRC="smileys/biggrin.gif">.. 
 
A hub is more 'noisy' if you will... sending all packets through all the ports where a switch is more intelligent and only sends the packets through the port necessary to reach the destination. It is much more effective and reduces overall bandwidth usage as there are less collisions and less packets in general on the LAN. 
-Eric...

05-25-2001, 06:34 | posts: n/a

isnt a switch also more efficient because it does less 'packet sniffing' per se? It monitors the integrity of packets less intensively and as a result is able to route them faster and more efficiently? 
 
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