Art,

These are good questions but there is one important one that needs to
be asked first...are the hubs active or passive?...my understanding
is that with passive hubs you divide by half the distance that can be
be bridged to the next machine and/or hub. If you have 4 hubs none of
which are active and no repeaters you could effectively have NO
transmission by the time the info reaches the 4th hub.

Not being a Networking expert (yet <g>)..I will leave it to the
others who do this work daily to say if this is so or not.

Best,
Bob Chapel


> length of cat5 is 100m. In a situation where you have 4 hubs would
> this mean you could have x machines on hub#1 each on a 100m cable,
> have hub #2 100m away, hubs 3&4 each separated by a 100m cable and y
> machines on hub #4 all on 100m cables ????? THis could add up to
> about 500m from one end to the other. Or does it mean that max
> distance between any two machines on the network is 100m ?
>