I have been brought in on a part time basis to a relatively small company to do some IT work. The problem is that the company has a scattering of small hubs and switches plugged into wall ports, some ...

When it comes to complexity of network connectors, you have got multiple levels, with a switch (hub) at the bottom and a router at the top. A hub is an astonishingly dumb gadget. It accepts a packet ...

Your router isn't just for Wi-Fi—here's everything a network switch actually fixes ...

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If your home network still runs through a Gigabit switch, that switch is the bottleneck between your router and everything ...

I'm in the process of preparing for my Network+ exam, and getting conflicting advice about the correct way of counting collision domains for test questions like "You've got a two port router, a four ...