>>>Good day!
>>>
>>>I am about to upgrade our network from BNC Coax to
>>>UTP Hub.
>>>
>>>I have planned to use 1 16 port Hub and 1 8 port Hub.
>>>
>>>It has been said that using a BNC Coax as a backbone is
>>>better in terms of speed than connecting the 2 hubs via
>>>a UTP port. Is this correct?
>>
>>I don't think that is true. Coax is otherwise known as 10Base2. UTP is otherwise known as 10Base-T (unless it's 100Base-T). The "10" in 10Base2 and 10Base-T specifies 10Mbps speed for both mediums.
>
>Hi.
>
>If you want to speed up your network you could do like this:
>
>One 100Base-T hub for the servers and one or two switched 10Base-T hubs
>for your workstations or as many as you need. And make sure the hubs are
>stackable with 100Mbps. This way you get a backbone with 100Mbps and
>10Mbps switched to every workstation.
>
>/Magnus

Thanks for your msg. Yes, we are running a mixed environment of Switched & Fast Ethernet and 10Mbps Ethernet here (slowly getting segments upgraded). The hurdle I last crossed was getting one of our fiber backbones upgraded to 100BaseFX.