Switch vs hub

[tb2007]

Whats the difference between a switch and a hub?

 

[MrCodeDude]

Switch is better. Hubs don't direct traffic. Switches direct traffic. More bottlenecks w/ Hubs.

 

[MrCodeDude]

A vital difference between a hub and a switch is that all the nodes connected to a hub share the bandwidth among themselves, while a device connected to a switch port has the full bandwidth all to itself. For example, if 10 nodes are communicating using a hub on a 10-Mbps network, then each node may only get a portion of the 10 Mbps if other nodes on the hub want to communicate as well. But with a switch, each node could possibly communicate at the full 10 Mbps.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/lan-switch2.htm

 

[tb2007]

Yeah what i thought but i wanted to be sure because ive got a good bit of computers on my hub and i think i keep getting collisions going on.