Help with Exercise

donstroke

Hi, guys. New and noob here, I don't know if this things goes here, if not, I beg you pardon and please move it o delete it.

I need some help with an exercise from a series of 14.

Find 5 basic problems with this network topology and explain the actions that would mitigate or remove them.



Thanks a lot in advance, I know this is easy as f*ck, but I need a little push to make my brain understand.

OctalDump

Is that an old school bus topology? Is it missing switches? Are the ends of the cable properly terminated to deal with reflection? Why a router in the middle? Are those stubs too long?

Could all those problems be solved with some Cat6, Gigabit switch, and some NICs from this century?

Honestly, that picture raises a lot more than 5 questions.