difference between switch and hub

My Netgear 8 port 10/100 dualspeed hub died today (six years old). I going
to buy another tomorrow. I was looking at prices online and was thinking,
would a switch work the same as a hub?

Yes, in fact, a switch would be better for your network. A hub creates a
single data channel (usually 10mbps) and all computers must share that one
channel. A switch creates multiple data channels (usually 100mbps), one for
each device. There are other differences, like the fact that a switch sends
data directly from the source to the destination - as opposed to a hub which
sends the data to all devices whether they were supposed to see it or not.

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"Mark Corbelli" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My Netgear 8 port 10/100 dualspeed hub died today (six years old). I going
> to buy another tomorrow. I was looking at prices online and was thinking,
> would a switch work the same as a hub?
>
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