10 Jul
2004
10 Jul
'04
10:25 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
A 10Mb/sec hub is great if you just want to network a
few older machines
together and don't have allot of concurrent users. I still have one 3com hub
in a box on the shelf here somewhere. I switched to 10/100 because moving
ISO images was too slow, and once you started the network became very laggy
and slow (shared 10Mb/sec). Once you have more then one user , wanted
bi-directional ability, and have machines with HD's that can more then
saturate a 10mbs hub a 100Mb/sec switch is worth the effort of running cat5
wire. Unless your moving lots of mpegs around the network Gigabit ethernet
is a bit overkill these days.
My house has been wired with Cat5 since 1996 (when I moved in). And I
wired the house I rented before that with Cat5 as far back as 1995 (plus
Cat3 for the PBX ;)
However, mostly out of laziness and not much luck traditionally in getting
100Mbps hardware for free, I run 10Mbps. I lately added a WAP and will be
inserting a 100Mbps hub/router I acquired once I get some time :)
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