Quoting Carlos E. R.
On 2016-06-05 16:06, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 06/04/2016 10:36 PM, James Knott wrote:
Most hubs run at 10 Mb, a few at 100 Mb and none at Gb. A hub will severely throttle modern connections, which may interfere with what you're trying to observer.
Once again, James, your missing the point of the CONTEXT Jeffrey was stating.
Yes there are going to be contexts where what you say is true, and ones, certainly ones that I have met and probably Jeffrey has met, where what you say isn't true.
Its also possible that even with the slowing down the problem still appears because it has nothing to do with the speed of the packets and everything to do with something else about them.
Context is Everything.
I just had a look at my local shop, and they don't even sell ethernet hubs. If someone sells today a hub for someone to install at home, I consider that a swindle. Pure swindle.
Maybe there are hubs somewhere. Old stuff lying around, or sellers trying to sell obsolete stuff. Of course many people would not know of the difference. Or even notice. They would perhaps think that Internet is slow but think that it is like that, nothing to be done.
You should not consider using a hub even on the humblest of setups, unless you can not get something better.
At the time, switches were available at a reasonable price. IIRC, switches with mirroring ports were not as affordable. I had to look around to find a hub. 300Mbps Internet is available where I live for $70 (63€) per month. The 50Mbps connection I have is half that. In practice there is almost nothing I use that comes close to maxing that out. Even with two laptops and a smartphone, anything more than 50Mbps is throwing money away. With the light population here and mostly heavily loaded servers on the other end, I'm not sure I could tell the difference between a hub and a switch without more effort testing than it's worth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org