Unfortuately, be cause the hubs are only 10Mbps, a 100 Mbps will auto set
itself for 10Mbps.
You'll need to get 100Mbps Hubs, and make sure that the Inet Switch supports
100Mbps
on all its ports.  Some switches will have 1 100Mbps Switch going to a
server with
10 Mbps on all the other ports.

Basically if your Switch is just 10/100 on all ports (meaning that the ports
in the switch support both speeds) that
won't need replacing.

You'll need a 10/100 Mbps Hub, and 10/100 Nics on all the machines.  Or get
a 17 port Switch that can support
all the machines on the network instead of sharing the available bandwith on
a hub.  That way all the computers will be able to
have dedicated Full Duplex 100Mbps (200 Mbps total Bandwith--100 TX/100RX)
to each computer.

--Patrick Black
CCNA Certified

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chan Fan Chong" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 12:40 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 10Mpbs, 100Mpbs, Hubs or Switch ?


> Hello lists,
>
> I need advice on my client existing LAN setup.
>
>                                     Dlink Internet Server
>                                              |
>                                              |
>                                              |
> Main PC  --------------------------   10/100 Switch
>                                          |       |
>                                          |       |
>                                          |       |
>                                       HUB A     HUB B
>                                          |       |
>                                       8 PCs      7 PCs
>
> Hardware spec : Dlink Internet Server , Dlink 10/100 5 ports switch,
> Dlink 10Mbps hubs
>                 All PCs equiped with Allied Telesyn 10 Mbps Nic with IP
> Address assigned.
>                 All PCs are INTEL celerons 400, 64 MB Ram
>
> Recently, a friend told me to replace all the 10 Mbps Nic with 100 Mpbs
> Nic WITHOUT replace the HUBs WILL increase the bandwidth of the network.
> Is it true ?
>
> How I am going to increse the bandwidth of the network ?
> (1) replace HUBs with a switch(100Base) ?
> (2) replace 10base NIC with 100base NIC WITHOUT replace HUBs ?
> (3) replace 10base NIC with 100base NIC and replace HUBs with SWITCH ?
>
> All PCs mainly use for networkable game such as HALF-LIFE,
> COUNTER-STRIKE, STARCRAFT, DIABLO II, AGE OF EMPIRE II, QUAKE III and
> into the internet.
>
> I hope you all is able to give me some advice or tips. All advice and
> tips is fully appreciated.
>

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