On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Murray Armfield wrote:

: 	Familiar with switches, routers and bridges. Don't think poor hub is
: to blame. Also the hubs at my work are full-duplex as that's the network
: configuration picked up by my network card.

Then the so-called `hubs' at your work are actually switches.

Hubs are merely repeaters, and from an electronics standpoint, there's no
way they can be anything but half duplex.  Like, uh, how does RF
transmission work?

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)