Each cable can be as long as the limit (I forget what it is, but it's over
100 feet because I use a 100ft cable regularily (laptop in bed :) )
The limit is only between hops - i.e. nic to hub.
Alos, you picture is wrong. Each machine plugs into the hub, so think of a
star or wagon wheel. The hub is the center and everything connects to
it. The slower PC will NOT slkow down the others.
BTW, there is no magic here. A simple hub is really just joing all the
wires together. Every packet gets sent out to evey machine connected to
the hub (watch the lights on the hub and the nics). It's your software
sttings (IP and netmark) that determine who pays attention to the packets.
You will have a lot of fun with this stuff :)
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> Great. I've gotten a lot of helpful answers to this question.
> Again, the Ovislink price is perfect! Would I be better with the ISA or
> PCI NIC's? Or would it matter? There is a $28 Harmony 4-port hub.
> That would be fine (brand doesn't matter to me as long as it's not
> trash) and save some money. So, if I use 3 of the 10/100mb 64bit PCI
> hubs ($11 each for $33), one Harmony 4port hub ($28), 2 25 feet cables,
> 1 50 footer (or would it be ok to go from one to one to one, with only 2
> 25 feet cables, or have 2 of those then 1 50 footer to go from the last
> to the first. see diagram below.
>
> A---(25ft cable)-----B-------(25ft cable)---------C
> -------------(50ft cableconnecting A and C)-------
>
> Anyway, total cost before tax and all that junk is a bit over $70,
> just as Paul predicted.
> I don't need fast performance, but if it bogs down machine B... (A is
> my 450PIII linux machine, B is a 333 k6-2 W98, C is old and slow, a
> 75mghz P75 but they won't let me make it linux. :-) The order can be
> switched of course I'm assuming.
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