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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (48879)	7/24/2001 7:50:30 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Paul: If you are going to upgrade from 10 MBPs to 100 MBPs - DON'T USE a HUB - use a 100 MBPs SWITCH. Yes, I fully realize the advantages of going with a switch. However, I only have "a few" devices on it and the odds that they would need any meaningful bandwidth at the same time is minimal. Of course, the price for a switch is only marginally higher these days, so the real reason lies in the advantages of a hub: being able to seperately monitor the network traffic that arrives at another computer. There are quite a few very useful (legal) uses for this. -fyo