Bandwidth Place 2

Im looking at PB here...

Which is better and like why would you choose one over the other. In what situations would each be more practical???


An another thing... I've read situations where its practical to make two sepearate networks and then join them together. Say when like a group of 40 pc's will be sharing a large number of large files, but only 10 of those people need to send this big stuff to one another and kill the network bandwidth for everyone else. So they make a seperate network for the 10 users and then another for the other 30 and network those two together...

How would you do that, what equipment would you have to use and where would the internet connection come in... Ill attack a drawing of what I think you would do...

switches > hubs

Hub: The Stupid Switch, if a PC sends a packet to another PC, the hub will take the packet and send it through to every port it has. The PC to recieve it will have to know to take it, and the others have to know to ignore. This wastes bandwidth.

Switch: It knows the MAC addresses of the PCs and will read the delivery address and only send the packet down the route to that PC. This saves bandwidth.

about the pic, you ask about switch/hub and have two boxes labelled routers? XD The one connecting to the T1 line will need to be a Router though, by definition a router simply connects a LAN to a LAN or WAN. Oh and really you only see consumer routers with more than two ethernet ports. So if you get an 'industrial' router like that then you will still need two switches coupled with it. Yes dividing the network into multiple switches is a good idea.