Originally posted by DDT
sometime try using hub and run speed test on your cpu @speakeasy or someplace like that. Next try running same test using a switch ,then maybe you won't be so quick to throw in your @ cents!!!!!!.
DDT, for two PCs connecting to the Internet a switch would only be faster than a hub if the switch had memory to buffer simultaneous transmissions to/from the PCs. Not all switches do and even at that the performance increase would be negligible.
Consider also that even a slow hub (10 mbps) is 3-5 times faster than the bottleneck of your dsl/cable modem connection. If you have a 100mbps hub/switch then you will see much faster file transfers between the PCs but not the Internet.
And yes, I've tested this.
