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by jandrese
1188 days ago
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Hubs max out at 100Mbps. Everybody today is using Gigabit, so they're effectively extinct. Even at 100Mbps hubs were on the way out. They were pretty hacky. The hardware had two different hubs internally and joined them together with a bit of logic, but that logic was somewhat failure prone and it was common to have 10/100 hubs where the 10 clients couldn't talk with the 100 clients and vice versa. Autodetection was at best a roll of the dice so most people wired down their port settings instead. Everybody hated them and switches got cheap real fast so they didn't last very long. The only thing they were good for was network diagnostics. |
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Indeed - I still have a couple that I used for packet sniffing. Thankfully managed switches or switches smart enough to support port mirroring are inexpensive and thus fairly ubiquitous now.