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To: Spots who wrote (1704)	7/15/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>buy a 10 Base-T Hub and a 100 Base-Tx hub and connect them with a two port 10/100 bridge. Some one (dlink or linksys) at compusa the other day for $120. >> I think the multiport switches offer a better value for nominal price difference.... I think you missed my point. I am not suggesting plugging the hubs into the switch but, plug each station into the switch directly and running them at 10Mbps and 100 Mbps Full Duplex. Benefits. More bandwith per user, longer term investment. Lower Latency (no collisions). DisAdv: Slightly higher cost.I have recently put 100M switches into small customers to replace 10/100 Hubs and the speed gain is substanticial and noticeable to the average user even on a 5 user network. Most people using 10M hubs have no idea how much of the bottleneck there shared media is until you drop in one of these el cheap switches and your network throughput soars. I wasn't convinced myself till 2 months ago when a very small customer of mine but 8 + 2 switch and put the server on 100 port and the clients on the 10M ports and the difference was like night and day. applications loading off the file server that were loading in 15-20 seconds now load in 2-3 seconds. The cost of the devices is so cheap that their hard to ignore. Sean