I have a small business network that’s been in place for many years, and we’re finally getting around to a long overdue replacement of a dozen or so old desktop computers. The technician doing the ...

A group of co-workers was trying to hold a meeting in a conference room of our large corporate HQ building. They had wanted to have everybody bring their laptops and collaborate, but since the ...

Networking hubs are at a disadvantage against network switches in every technical area. Switches and hubs perform the same general function of connecting computers and computer-like devices to a ...

A central switching point that all devices on an Ethernet segment plug into. Also known as a "multiport repeater" and sometimes called a "concentrator, the hub shares the total bandwidth among all ...

Shared versus dedicated channels. In an Ethernet network, every client, server and network device is wired to a hub or switch. A hub shares the total bandwidth among all users, while a switch provides ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

I have been brought in on a part time basis to a relatively small company to do some IT work. The problem is that the company has a scattering of small hubs and switches plugged into wall ports, some ...

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