Networkingexplain

hello everyone in this article we're going to talk about the difference between a hub a switch and a router now all three of these devices are similar but there is a difference in the way they handle data so we'll first talk about a hub now the purpose of a hub is to connect all of your network devices together on an internal network it's a device that has multiple ports that accepts Ethernet connections from network devices now a hub is considered not to be intelligent because it does not filter any data or has any intelligence as to where the data is supposed to be sent and that's because the only thing a hub knows is when a device is connected to one of its ports so when a data packet arrives at one of the ports it is copied to all of the other ports so all the devices on that hub sees that data packets so again a data packet comes into one port then the hub will just rebroadcast that data to every port that has a device connected to it so even if this computer here ...