>Routers can be useful in very large designs, but normally only a router for the WAN is needed. Of course, you definitely want to setup switches on your network to contain a lot of traffic running on everyones machines.
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>I suggest hooking the hubs up to a switch and having departments on the same hub. That way if there software needs to accept broadcasts the people in the same department will receive them.
OK, thank you for the information.
I understand that one reason that a large network is divided into smaller ones (through routers) is precisely to
avoid excessive broadcasts. The router will thus help to make the network more efficient.
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