Switches & Routers

A switch is a pass-through device like a hub, but with packet inspection capabilities. Helps keep bandwidth optimum and such. You can use one to hook multiple computer in a network superior to that of a ICS network. A router is a device that can hook two networks together, aka a WAN and a LAN, and can be used to share an internet connection. The often come with advanced security option like NAT and stateful packet inspection.

This is based off my limited (but growing! XD) knowledge of networking and such. Towards the second Q.. I do not believe so, as the ports your programs need open to access the internet all vary, and need to be specified by the user.
 
hermeslyre said:
A switch is a pass-through device like a hub, but with packet inspection capabilities. Helps keep bandwidth optimum and such. You can use one to hook multiple computer in a network superior to that of a ICS network. A router is a device that can hook two networks together, aka a WAN and a LAN, and can be used to share an internet connection. The often come with advanced security option like NAT and stateful packet inspection.

This is based off my limited (but growing! XD) knowledge of networking and such. Towards the second Q.. I do not believe so, as the ports your programs need open to access the internet all vary, and need to be specified by the user.
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I understood 50% of that.. or less...

Sooo... are there any "Port Forwarding Enabled" Switches around that can let me host an game without doing all that enabling?

PS - Are there any ROUTERS that can do as desrcibed above and run at 100MPBS?
 
oscaryu1 said:
PS - Are there any ROUTERS that can do as desrcibed above and run at 100MPBS?
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No router can do 100MBPS, the highest i've seen was 1000Mbps, but most consumer grade routers use 10/100Mbps.

But to answer your other question, yes routers can be used for port forwarding.
 
I thought hubs were 10/100 and routers were 54 and 108?? :confused:


Are there any routers/switches that are ALREADY port forwarded??? Like in the factory? If so could you show me an cheap one?
 
oscaryu1 said:
I thought hubs were 10/100 and routers were 54 and 108?? :confused:


Are there any routers/switches that are ALREADY port forwarded??? Like in the factory? If so could you show me an cheap one?
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Wireless speeds are 54Mb/s and 108Mb/s whereas wired speeds are 10/100Mb/s (yes, this means that a 108Mb/s wireless connection is theoretically faster than a 100Mb/s wired connection, but in practice that's not the case). Any modern router will support 100Mb/s wired and at least 54Mb/s wireless. Routers just advertise the wireless speed on the box more often :D.

With regards to routers that have ports forwarded already, I would think not. Which ports you need to forward and to which address you need to forward them depends entirely on how you're using the device.

Forwarding the ports isn't particularly difficult (once you get the hang of it), and to be honest in many cases isn't even required.
 
oscaryu1 said:
I thought hubs were 10/100 and routers were 54 and 108?? :confused:


Are there any routers/switches that are ALREADY port forwarded??? Like in the factory? If so could you show me an cheap one?
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Now were talking about hubs? Most switches and routers are 10/100 (meaning 100Mbps, not 100MBPS like you said earlier). However they do make ones which are 10/100/1000.

11Mbps, 54Mbps, and 108Mbps are wireless speeds (108Mbps not actually being a standard), theoretically are faster, but because it's wireless, the further away from the source you are, the slower the speed is.
 
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