Wow, this was a blast from the past and I just read your message today. Sorry it took so long.

A hub shares the 10 or 100 Mbs pipe amongst all the computers on that network. A switch provides a dedicated 10 or 100 Mbs (or faster as the case may be) for each computer on that network. Switches are faster in networks that are maxing out the median throughput of the network. For cost savings, many times it's best to put a switch on a particularly used group of computers or single computers instead of having everybody on the network hooked into the switch independently. That can get costly if there's a bunch of computers on the network that don't push/pull that much data across it.

For what it's worth...

- A Hilton


>I was going thru my stored messages to save and delete and when I saw this I thought, "Huh?"
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>You're usually better off going with some kind of switches so you can get dedicated 10 Mbs to each and every machine instead of 100 Mbs shared among them all.
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>So a hub does not 'dedicate' 10mbs to each user? If there is alot of network activity it is divided or shared amongst a 10mb pool? Is that what that means? What switches are available? Will they allow 2 simultaneous 10mb connections?
>Thanks