¡hola ricardo! it depends on the bandwith and on your setup .... i guess you dont have more than 10mbit of bandwidth going to the net ..... and i also guess that your hub is intelligent enough to not throttle-down the whole network to 10mbit when on 10mbit device is connected to it. i would suggest the following setup : (bad ascii art following) isp line <---> webserver/firewall <---> hub the nic connected to the isp can be a 10mbit card, and for safety you can use the 100mbit on the hub side. this way you can be sure that nothing will go wrong with your internal network performance. i have seen hubs that either switch all ports to 10mbit or give an enormous amount of collisions when a 10mbit device is connected while the rest is 100mbit ...... but most modern hubs should be capable of handling that in a correct way. greets, chris Am Donnerstag, 30. August 2001 04:15 schrieb Ricardo Rodriguez:
My actual network is conected through a router that is connected to a cable modem and providing internet access to three laptops.
What I am going to do is put one of those laptops outside the router so it can be set as a webserver and be accessed by outsiders. In that case that pc will be in the middle of the router and de ISP.
I have a 10mbp NIC and a 10/100mbp. Do I really need to get another 10/100 to put in that computer or I can just put the 10/100 in the NIC connected to the ISP and the 10mbp going to the router?
Does that really affect the service performance on the computers connected to the router?
Thnx!!
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