Switching hub: Same thing?

All I can think is they hub'd a bunch of switches together. Which is completely insane. It depends how they set it up. If the 5 switches are connected to another switch it is fine, if it is hubbed together, it is not worth much...
 
sharkm87 said:
according to the specs it says 4 8 port switches. so i'm assuming its a regular switch, which is fine
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But why would they then throw in the "hub" reference, as this would decrease the value of the switches. And if they did connect the switches with a HUB it is garbage.

Send an email to the sellar asking where therefernce "hub" came from, and if the switches are connected via a hub.
 
I talked to the networking teacher at my high school and she said that it's just an older term for switch. Before switches, there were hubs, which would just send a packet around and around until someone picked it up. Then, they got the idea to make the hubs "switch", or choose which computer needed the packet...thus "switching hub"
 
I think that a switching hub is one that runs at 10mbit and 100mbit but does not have the backbone of a switch. A HUB broadcasts packets to every port thus any kind of network traffic is broadcasted to every open port on the HUB and that causes collisions.

Typically on a HUB if you have one client running at 10BaseT you then slow down the whole network to 10mbit. A switching HUB allows various clients to run at either speed, ie if someone with a 10base card pops on your network it doesn't slow down the whole network to 10mbit

This is what I think though, I could be wrong. I looked up the wiki of switches and it said they had always been called switches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch#Types_of_switches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_hub
 
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