21 Mar
2000
21 Mar
'00
10:51 a.m.
Chuck McManis asked:
I'm confused, aren't these "fan out"
units just hubs?
Aaron Christopher Finney replied:
These simply provide multiple ports on a single tap. I
indicated my
interest in them for the thick ethernet segment in my garage, as I only
have 3 transceivers tapped into it at the moment. Physically, they just
connect to the tapped transciever.
Which, as Chuck suggests, is a effectively a description of a hub, albeit one
that has AUI interfaces rather than 10-base-T. Ethernet hubs are technically
multiport repeaters, and are subject to all of the topology and distance
limits of repeaters.