a hub or a switch?

My friend called me on the phone and said .he has a simple Ethernet
cable coming into his desk at work. He hooks that cable to his docking
station and plugs his laptop into the docking station and away he goes
on the internet. What he wants is to bring his pc into the office and
hook it up at the same time. I told him he needs a hub but on
retrospect would it be better to get a switch or a hub in his
situation? I have no idea how many others in his building use this
cabling but he will only be using these two computers. Any
recommendations? Thanks
yks

first, his IT dept. may not allow this. most companies do not.
technically, a switch is better than a hub.

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:03:20 -0700 (PDT), yksmir <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>My friend called me on the phone and said .he has a simple Ethernet
>cable coming into his desk at work. He hooks that cable to his docking
>station and plugs his laptop into the docking station and away he goes
>on the internet. What he wants is to bring his pc into the office and
>hook it up at the same time. I told him he needs a hub but on
>retrospect would it be better to get a switch or a hub in his
>situation? I have no idea how many others in his building use this
>cabling but he will only be using these two computers. Any
>recommendations? Thanks
>yks
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Well,

In order to share the network resources in two computers.

A Hub would be a better idea , less costly and is quite fast.
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Confah


"yksmir" wrote:

> My friend called me on the phone and said .he has a simple Ethernet
> cable coming into his desk at work. He hooks that cable to his docking
> station and plugs his laptop into the docking station and away he goes
> on the internet. What he wants is to bring his pc into the office and
> hook it up at the same time. I told him he needs a hub but on
> retrospect would it be better to get a switch or a hub in his
> situation? I have no idea how many others in his building use this
> cabling but he will only be using these two computers. Any
> recommendations? Thanks
> yks
>