<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 13 Feb 2007, at 04:41, John Welch wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</FONT><BR>They are both connected to an 8-port 10/100 hub. ... The F/E is located in another room where it is connected to another 8-port fast ethernet switch (same model as the first).</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hub or switch?</DIV><DIV>Without looking further at your post "hub" is a word that leaps out at me & jumps up & down.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A hub will broadcast packets to all its ports, and if more than one connection is made through it simultaneously then collisions will cause it to saturate at well below its headline speed (like 20mBit). A switch directs packets only to the port which responds to them, so full bandwidth communications can take place between multiple computers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Stroller.</DIV></BODY></HTML>