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> I have a Linksys 10/100 5-port Workgroup Hub, model EFAH05W. The
> Support Page for Hubs on the Linksys site has the following
> paragraph:-
>
> Switch VS. Hub. All Linksys Switches provide for Full-Duplex speed and
> cut down the traffic on the network by sending the packets only to the
> port on the workstation is to receive the information. The Linksys
> hubs only operate at Half-Duplex speed and they broad cast a packet to
> all the nodes on the network (the Auto- sensing hubs broadcast the
> 10Mb packets to the port that operate at 10Mb only and broadcast the
> 100Mb packets to the ports that operate at 100Mb only.
>
> What does that last sentence about Auto-sensing hubs mean? Does it
> mean that the 10/100 hubs sort of act as a switch of sorts when
> there's a mix of 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s devices connected? One can
> certainly send packets from a 100Mb/s device to a 10Mb/s device on the
> hub.
>
>
It seems to mean that there are effectively two hubs, and they don't
talk to each other, but it's just not very well worded - what it
actually means is that it acts as an unswitched hub but broadcasts at
the speed appropriate to the machine on each port.
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