Easy Question...

[zentech-admin]

My question is this...

I have a small office we use a Cisco 2507. It has 16 HUB ports. I have our VPN concentrator hanging off one port, our LAN on another port, our wireless router on another port. Because the ports are HUB ports there is contention for bandwidth on these ports correct?

Obviously I could buy another router with switched ports, but I was wondering...what if I hang my VPN, LAN, WIFI router off a SWITCH then connect it to a SINGLE HUB port on the 2507 WAN Router would that resolve the contention issue since the data is being switched then sent to a sigle port on the WAN router?

My guess is yes, but I want to be sure. Thank you in advance.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

my guess is that this would make things worse. Having your devices connected to separate hub ports at least ensures that every device has its own direct connection to the internal bus on the 2507. By connecting everything to a switch and then connecting that switch to a single hub port would mean that all traffic needs to go through a 10MB half duplex pipe. Your solution would only ensure faster communication between the devices connected to the switch (that is, traffic that does not need to go through the router), since the switch will provide dedicated ports with full duplex pipes for each device.

Obviously it depends on the money you have available to spend, but you are probably better off buying a 2600 with a FastEthernet module.

Does that make sense ?

Regards,

GP

[zentech-admin]

Makes complete sense. Thank you, I'll look into the 2600 series.

[amit-singh]

Hi,

Certainly upto some extent. Just wanna let you know that only your collision domain will be divided but the broadcast domain will remain the same if you are using a single vlan.

regards,

-amit singh