cable internet question

[PSiedTSi]

Ok, let me try to explain this to you. The router gives out 100mb(well technically 66mbps or so with cat5e) to EACH port. There is only ONE input from the internet, if that is 10mbps, then its not going to be 30 or 40mbps just because you have a 4 port switch. Each computer has 100mb/1gb(or whatever you are using) pipeline WITHIN the network. The network only has a 10mbps pipeline to the outside world. Regardless.

[Guest]

i know... EACH port will get the 10mbps. if it were a hub, it would get split up and the connection would fuckin suck.

my #'s were just examples btw.

[PSiedTSi]

No, thats not right. There is no way my 3mbps connection is turning out to be 9mbps just because I have 3 computers connected. I know for a fact if I go download on my other computer, it WILL slow down my connection. May not be noticeable in my surfing, but if I test my connection, it will show a slow down. I am paying for a 3mbps line into my house, not 9mbps. I don't know how else I can explain it. It is not limited by me, but rather by the cable company. A router is simply a bridge that creates a private network. A hub gives EACH device its own PUBLIC IP address, it JUST splits, doesn't route. I need someone else to post up. If you have a 10/100 switch, each port will get whatever the network card on the other end allows, but the ENTIRE network will ONLY get what connection you subscribed too.

[MisterCMK]

Hubs are not intelligent either. They just broadcast the packets across the entire network.

hub < switch

[PSiedTSi]

Right. So who's side are you on?

[MisterCMK]

Well, I think I'm gonna be on your side this time.

[Turbo5Oh]

ahhhhhh!!! what hell is going on i dont need this much info

me intranet is to darn slow me want it to go fast, cuz it to hard to watch them there girly flicks

[Guest]

Router > Switch > Hub

Maybe im just not explaining it good enough. I 100% agree with you.

Enough of this battle

I cant explain worht a shit. never have, never care to

[PSiedTSi]

The router in your house has a switch built in. A router is more or less a bridge, but with advanced features.

[Guest]

Switch = Multiport Bridge

Router = Advanced Switch

[Joel]

Angel is trying to say that if you take 24 mbps into a 4 port hub, the max of each port is only 6 mps, regardless of whats running off the other slots. a router will only deliver is to what is using the connection... Either way I don't think thats Mike's problem. No idea what it is to tell you the truth. Just use a different wireless connection, like a neighbors, if you can.

[PSiedTSi]

That is not true either Joel.

[Turbo5Oh]

my rents live in the boondocks, house next to us has like 60 yr old people in it no other wirelss signals out here

where can i get a 50 ft cable?

[Guest]

PSiedTSi wrote:
That is not true either Joel.

for a hub, it is true.

[weshole]

I got an idea. Magically break the Xbox, steal it, or just steal the power chord.

[PSiedTSi]

AnGeL. wrote:
for a hub, it is true.

No, it is not.

[Guest]

Quoted from Webopedia:

"When a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets."

AKA what i was describing

[PSiedTSi]

Yeah, how does that equal the connection being divided?

Ok, enough whoring this thread. Either you need to learn how to explain what you are saying or you really need to go back to school.

[MisterCMK]

AnGeL. wrote:
Quoted from Webopedia:

"When a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets."

AKA what i was describing

Nope. You were not describing that at all.

[PSiedTSi]

Thank you Chris.