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Re: recommendations for 8 port hub with no fan?!

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dlinford@vcn.bc.ca
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:08:46 -0800

in <in <8EE19327Fjdarleymailcom@209.53.11.73>,
jdarley@mail.com (Julian Darley) writes:
>ynmiles@telus.net (Ya`akov N Miles) wrote in <38B19C86.FDE5F5DD@telus.net>:
>>I have the LinkSys 10/100 eight port switching hub model EZXS88W.
[...]
>the auto-sensing is clearly a benefit, if it is so, however i have been
>told that switches are slower than hubs when it comes to heavy data
>transfer, such as might occur while doing video editing. do you know if
>this true?

What do you mean by "slower". Switches make this ambiguous!
There is additional latency, but on a good switch it is a
_very_ small latency (preamble + header + processing time).

On the other hand, it increases availability of the "logica bus",
which can dramaticaly decrease effective latency. All depends on
usage/environment. It'd be nice to know the technical argument
against switches that's be put forward for you application.

dean 

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