Some very old switches are only capable of 10 Mbit/s, switches built from the mid-1990s forward are capable of 100 Mbit/s, and modern switches capable of 1000 Mbit/s (or “gigabit” speeds). Your Switch Is Old, But Your Connection Isn’tĮthernet connection speeds are dependent on the quality of the cabling and the capabilities of the network hardware. If you have a hub set up between your router and the rest of your network, you’re setting yourself up for a huge headache.
This leads to collisions between data packets and a general degrading of network quality.
The old and ubiquitous Netgear EN104TP Hub is the bane of network administrators everywhere.Ī hub is a “dumb” device in that it broadcasts whatever it hears on the input port to all the output ports. Despite their nearly identical appearance, however, the guts of the two pieces of network hardware are quite different. A hub and a switch look physically similar: they have X number of ports (typically in multiples of 4 like 4, 8, 16, 24, and so on) with one reserved for use as an input or a totally separate port labeled “uplink”. You can read more about the difference between switches and hubs here, but here’s the gist. RELATED: Understanding Routers, Switches, and Network Hardware Hands down, with very few exceptions, when we’re helping someone troubleshoot performance performance problems after installing a switch, the switch is….well, not a switch at all.
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