collisions

[The Wolf]

What do you mean bad??

It does slow your connection down if that is what you mean.

More collisions more packets have to be retransmitted.

If you have a lot of systems on the hub and you want better performance
you should probably think of 100Mbps Hub and cards or a switch.

The wolf

Lucas Vogel wrote:

> I have bought a hub(Netgear EN 104) and set my cable modem as the uplink
> and put my computer on the hub at the end. I notice that I seem to get a
> lot of collisions. Is this bad?
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