Switch or Hub?

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e.slawson

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O.k here my problem....im living in a house ( not mine ) and have an ethernet connections coming into my room. How can i use this 1 connection in order to use 2 internet devices at the same time without using the thing through windows??

is there sumthing i can plug the ethernet cable into and have 2 ethernets cables coming out ...sort of like a router??

plz help thnaks
 
well you are right, eather a switch or a hub would work, however these days, you dont see hubs, they are out dated, so a switch will work fine. that is saying that you have dhcp in the cable (if you can get a ip address your fine) if you dont, you need a router
 
so what your saying is that a switch has like a port for internet coming in and like 3 or 4 ports with internet leaving?
 
yes, that is it. there is 5 (or 8 or 16... biger=more expensive) and you plug the wall jack into that and you have 4 connections for whatever
 
cohen said:
Great debugging tool???

also, pls stop the spamming
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in stand of your funny reply you could have ask "what do you mean?can you please explain more?" and maybe (just maybe)you can learn something



hubs are still good debugging tools since they still operate using a broadcast model . which means one computer send data and the rest of the computers receives the data. now my old friend , imagining sharing the uplink with another machine on a hub. or imagine sharing the interface of a router with debugging machine (ON A HUB) you can sniff the tx/rx traffic to that interface without any problems ! which ofcourse you couldnt do it using switch !

now since you are so experience you can say "you can use mirror ports with switch" but most of the switches (probably 90% of the SOHO doesn't support it )





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osischool said:
in stand of your funny reply you could have ask "what do you mean?can you please explain more?" and maybe (just maybe)you can learn something



hubs are still good debugging tools since they still operate using a broadcast model . which means one computer send data and the rest of the computers receives the data. now my old friend , imagining sharing the uplink with another machine on a hub. or imagine sharing the interface of a router with debugging machine (ON A HUB) you can sniff the tx/rx traffic to that interface without any problems ! which ofcourse you couldnt do it using switch !

now since you are so experience you can say "you can use mirror ports with switch" but most of the switches (probably 90% of the SOHO doesn't support it )





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that is true however for the price of hubs these days your better off getting a good switch with port mirroring
 
If I understand your question; Hub's or Switches don't allow Internet Access directly, you need a Router which normally comes with 5 ports; 1 Internet (WAN - Wide Area Network) and 4 Lan (Local Area Network).

If you have a Router already then a switch is fine.

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