5 Port 1GB Network Hub

[BrandonTheCat]

I need to find a 5 port 1GBit Hub, not a switch, and I need 8 of them. 

 

Where can I find this? Every store I go to they only have switches. 

 

After countless people below complained, Here is the difference between the two: 

 

What is a hub?

An Ethernet hub is the basic building block of a twisted-pair (10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX) Ethernet network. Hubs do little more than act as a physical connection. They link PCs and peripherals and enable them to communicate over a network. All data coming into the hub travels to all stations connected to the hub. Because a hub doesn’t use management or addressing, it simply divides the 10- or 100-Mbps bandwidth among users. If two stations are transferring high volumes of data between them, the network performance of all stations on that hub will suffer. Hubs are good choices for small- or home-office networks, particularly if bandwidth concerns are minimal. 

What is a switch?
An Ethernet switch, on the other hand, provides a central connection in an Ethernet network in which each connected device has its own dedicated link with full bandwidth. Switches divide LAN data into smaller, easier-to-manage segments and send data only to the PCs it needs to reach. They allot a full 10 or 100 Mbps to each user with addressing and management features. As a result, every port on the switch represents a dedicated 10- or 100-Mbps pathway. Because users connected to a switch do not have to share bandwidth, a switch offers relief from the network congestion a shared hub can cause. 

[Arty]

I need to find a 5 port 1GBit Hub, not a switch, and I need 8 of them. 

 

Where can I find this? Every store I go to they only have switches. 

Gl finding a hub nowadays

here why get 8 when you can get one?

it will probbly be cheaper

unless your spreading them around.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_feature_keywords_6?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A172504%2Cn%3A281414%2Ck%3Agigabit+switch%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A7306166011&keywords=gigabit+switch&ie=UTF8&qid=1435696282&rnid=5102031011

 

it would help if we new how your using them

[Kherm]

Honestly i thought a 'Hub' was a switch

[rustikles]

From what I understand, a hub uses more of a shotgun approach to data transmission. http://cross-automation.com/blog/whats-difference-between-hub-unmanaged-switch-and-managed-switch

 

What's your use case for these OP?

[minibois]

I need to find a 5 port 1GBit Hub, not a switch, and I need 8 of them. 

 

Where can I find this? Every store I go to they only have switches. 

Please explain what you think the difference between a hub and switch is?

 

AND GB or Gb???

GIGABYTE PORTS?

or GIGABIT PORTS?

makin sure you know your units here?

bruh, did you even read the post? He even underlined it.

 

I need to find a 5 port 1GBit Hub, not a switch, and I need 8 of them. 

[Arty]

Please explain what you think the difference between a hub and switch is?

 

bruh, did you even read the post? He even underlined it.

He changed obviously

it said 1GB before 

[BrandonTheCat]

Hub=Switch

ithink

you would want a switch anyway thier better

and instead of 8 - 5 port

just get 1 big one?

 

 

your links dead

 

 

AND GB or Gb???

GIGABYTE PORTS?

or GIGABIT PORTS?

makin sure you know your units here?

arty pls

1. There is no link... that was an underline so people can see (Bolded now)

2. I need 8 of them as they are being scattered all over the office. 

3. gigabit ports. Who the hell calls them gigabyte ports >-<

4. What is a hub?

An Ethernet hub is the basic building block of a twisted-pair (10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX) Ethernet network. Hubs do little more than act as a physical connection. They link PCs and peripherals and enable them to communicate over a network. All data coming into the hub travels to all stations connected to the hub. Because a hub doesn’t use management or addressing, it simply divides the 10- or 100-Mbps bandwidth among users. If two stations are transferring high volumes of data between them, the network performance of all stations on that hub will suffer. Hubs are good choices for small- or home-office networks, particularly if bandwidth concerns are minimal. 

What is a switch?

An Ethernet switch, on the other hand, provides a central connection in an Ethernet network in which each connected device has its own dedicated link with full bandwidth. Switches divide LAN data into smaller, easier-to-manage segments and send data only to the PCs it needs to reach. They allot a full 10 or 100 Mbps to each user with addressing and management features. As a result, every port on the switch represents a dedicated 10- or 100-Mbps pathway. Because users connected to a switch do not have to share bandwidth, a switch offers relief from the network congestion a shared hub can cause. 

 

Edit: Oh and 5. would be The specific "Boss" asked for a hub, not a switch, as the purpose here is to have 1 IP per hub, rather than having 5 IP's Per switch. 

[BrandonTheCat]

Please explain what you think the difference between a hub and switch is?

Done: Edited on post

[79wjd]

arty pls

1. There is no link... that was an underline so people can see (Bolded now)

2. I need 8 of them as they are being scattered all over the office. 

3. gigabit ports. Who the hell calls them gigabyte ports >-<

4. What is a hub?

An Ethernet hub is the basic building block of a twisted-pair (10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX) Ethernet network. Hubs do little more than act as a physical connection. They link PCs and peripherals and enable them to communicate over a network. All data coming into the hub travels to all stations connected to the hub. Because a hub doesn’t use management or addressing, it simply divides the 10- or 100-Mbps bandwidth among users. If two stations are transferring high volumes of data between them, the network performance of all stations on that hub will suffer. Hubs are good choices for small- or home-office networks, particularly if bandwidth concerns are minimal. 

What is a switch?

An Ethernet switch, on the other hand, provides a central connection in an Ethernet network in which each connected device has its own dedicated link with full bandwidth. Switches divide LAN data into smaller, easier-to-manage segments and send data only to the PCs it needs to reach. They allot a full 10 or 100 Mbps to each user with addressing and management features. As a result, every port on the switch represents a dedicated 10- or 100-Mbps pathway. Because users connected to a switch do not have to share bandwidth, a switch offers relief from the network congestion a shared hub can cause. 

 

Edit: Oh and 5. would be The specific "Boss" asked for a hub, not a switch, as the purpose here is to have 1 IP per hub, rather than having 5 IP's Per switch. 

Sp what benefit does a hub offer over a switch? (are hubs cheaper?) Or is it that a hub with a single user would allow for more bandwidth than a switch with a single user (for the same price anyway, since you can get very fast switches)

[BrandonTheCat]

Sp what benefit does a hub offer over a switch? (are hubs cheaper?) Or is it that a hub with a single user would allow for more bandwidth than a switch with a single user (for the same price anyway, since you can get very fast switches)

 A hub cannot become compromised by a single user that brings down the network, unlike unmanaged switches, which can become compromised by a single user. In addition, hubs are beneficial when using older ports, such as 10BASE2 and 10BASE5. These older ports are not compatible with network switches, but can be used to connect devices to modern networks. Hubs require much less management than network switches, so they are often still used for small networks, especially when running at 100mbps or 1Gbitps speed.

[Blebekblebek]

why do you want HUB nowdays?
it's impractical tehcnology and already replaced with switch for better performance across all network devices simultaneously with FULL DUPLEX
 

why do you want to cripple your own network?

and with 8? if you put this together, you just cut your network to 1/64 bandwith because HUB is HALF duplex

 

you don't even get 1gb speed with 1gb hub, you just got 500mbps for each connection, and half again from that half of it for each devices connected to same hub.

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

Edit: Oh and 5. would be The specific "Boss" asked for a hub, not a switch, as the purpose here is to have 1 IP per hub, rather than having 5 IP's Per switch. 

 

Does the boss know the difference between and Hub and a Switch...  ?     Hubs dont have IP's maybe you mean MAC addresses ? buet even then that wouldnt expalin "as the purpose here is to have 1 IP per hub, rather than having 5 IP's Per switch"

 

 

 A hub cannot become compromised by a single user that brings down the network, unlike unmanaged switches, which can become compromised by a single user. In addition, hubs are beneficial when using older ports, such as 10BASE2 and 10BASE5. These older ports are not compatible with network switches, but can be used to connect devices to modern networks. Hubs require much less management than network switches, so they are often still used for small networks, especially when running at 100mbps or 1Gbitps speed.

 

Every switch I have ever seen supports 10/100 half and full duplex.  Unmanged switches dont require any management. also 10BASE2 and 5 use Coax, Hubs use TwistedPair, to connect them your going to nead converters which then turns it in to 10BASET  thus supported by all modern switches.

 

"A hub cannot become compromised by a single user that brings down the network,"  I asume you have a router connected to this network ?  This can be the single device that brings down your network.  Along with all the people in your office that may decide to randomly plug things in to your hubs and easly create a loop, then your whole network dies.

 

If your looking for secuirty then you need managed switches behind a firewall and a router with proper secuirty measures.  any device on your network can bring it down, its not hard to do so the use of a HUB will infact make it worse due to the way hubs work by sending all data to all pc's.

 

conncecting lots of hubs togeather will create some seroius bottle necks when anyone transmits any data it will spread out to all 8 and create a F*ck tun of collisons slowing everything down even further as each PC has to wait for someone to stop talking and avoid the collision. 

 

There are no benifits to using hubs at all in any enviroment ever.  If your seriously concened about your network secuirty you need to get 8 managed switches that support IP access lits, port blocking, spanning tree and port secuirty.  this way you can disable all un-used ports, have ports shut down if an un-recognised MAC address is used on the port, you can log all your network events via syslog and monitor the crap out of it.

 

otherwise just get 8 unmanged switches and leave it at that, no one is going to try to find its MAC address to infultrate your network, If i wanted to break in im going straight for the router that has control of everthing and then the Bos's pc,  The switch helps me get there so im not going to attck it.

 

another secuirty flaw of hubs are the fact they do send packets to every single port,  connect all 8 togeather and now all networked devices know about whats going on through the network.  All you have to do now is infect one PC and put a network sniffer on the PC's connection and listen to ALL the trafic. With switches the only way to replicate this is for someone to purposufly mirror the main uplink port and connect a device to the mirrored port so you can sniff it, even then this is not technicly a "networked " pc so still more secure than a hub.

 

also Blebekblebek is correct with regards to his post.