Re: [LUG] OT DUMB QUESTION PROBABLY - NETWORKING

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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John Daragon wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2003 18:48, paul wrote:
>
> > What precisely is the difference between a hub and a switch,  on ebuyer
> > they got networking products, and you can get a switch and network card
> > together.
>
>
> A hub just rebroadcasts all of the packets that arrive at each socket, and 
> (typically) requires all of the sockets to be running at the same speed 
> because it doesn't have anything flashy like memory.  A switch, however, can 
> buffer frames, learns which NUA is on which port and routes packets more or 
> less intelligently. So they tend to support better-performing networks. 
> Because they can buffer data, they also get to handle (say) 10Mb/s and 
> 100Mb/s connections at the same time.
>
>
> > I am using a router and hub and can play games over the network.
> >
> >
> > One of the kids at the rugby club was asking me about networking, I am just
> > not sure on the hub / switch difference, would friends be able to take
> > laptops round and just plug in to the network.
> >
> >
> > Also given the possible distance between his two computers,
> >
> > a) whats the max length of cat 5 we can use.
>
>
> erk. Isn't it 200m ?

I think it is 250M

> > b) if we went wireless, do we need line of sight, or are there other issues
> > such as distance between computers, computers on different floors of the
> > house etc.
>
>
> Yep - depending on your architecture you'll either wonder why everyone doesn't 
> use this stuff or why anyone does use it.
>
>
> > looking at options,  I know each computer needs a network card and cable
> > and either a hub or switch.
> >
> > The intnetion is to play games over the network and possiby share internet
> > connection for games over the net,
> >
> > We have 2x Win98, 1x XP, most of the other computers will be running win98
> > i think.  even though if they are on the net it should not matter.

Of course the easy way to share the internet would be to use a 
Smoothwall as a proxy and firewall (good idea if you use 'doze on the net)

Give me a yell if you need more info on this..


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