Nowadays, some manufacturers have successfully eliminated the need for a fan in their hubs, and these are almost completely silent. Conclusion Hubs offer a convenient, affordable way to build a home or small business network. They will work with traditional dial-up, cable modem, and DSL service. Future high-speed Internet services like VDSL will almost certainly require Fast Ethernet performance as well. Hubs differ in the features they support as well as in performance, making direct comparisions difficult.
Hubs provide just one way to implement internetworking .
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