kinggeorge1987 wrote: » I'm a little confused here guys and gals. I remember back years ago before I had a clue about networking accidentally purchasing a switch instead of a hub. When I got the switch home I connected my cable modem to it, then ran cat5 to my desktops, and only one had internet. So I called cisco and they told me that I needed a hub or router to provide internet to both PCS. Well in essence my question is: If a hub works in a logical bus topology, sending the signal/packet to each workstation searching until it reaches the one with the assigned physical address, and a switch 'remembers' which physical addresses are in which port so it clears up network traffic and only sends it to the assigned pcs. Couldn't the switch have been configured to allow internet access to both pcs ? Secondly, in a large scale network, like the ones I'm sure most of you run. What is the physical layout of the network ? Does your internet connection hook into a router, and multiple switches with multiple workstations connected to each are connected to the router - then the switches are configured to allow the internet to travel to each port on the switch ?
