Network Hub selection help needed

One other thing ... It's easy to get "wrapped around the axle" with details about what works better than what, etc. Fact is ... the purpose of a network is to make multiple computers appear to you, the sum of all the end-users, since it's YOUR home computing facility, as one useful tool. I've seen more than one guy move from three boxes to each of which he could type a command and have a response in a couple of seconds, to a networked environment where he could sit at one station and accomplish the same thing, but not without a minute or two of typing. Some guys see this as an improvement. For me, the purpose of networking has been to make information stored on several dissimilar systems available to all of them with a minimum of hassle. If you have to generate manual routes to move files from one machine to another, it's a waste of effort setting the whole thing up. If that's your goal, your files should appear "out there" as though they were on a single computer, irrespective of how many computers are involved. Don't get caught in the trap of having your network just be an added burden. Most of them are. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:34 AM Subject: Network Hub selection help needed