cabling
Modern networks used two devices for the data packets within the network will flow easily. The two devices are the routers and switches.
hubs, switches or routers.
high performing network devices such as routers and switches help
A network can function fairly easily with just one router, the router is used to access the internet and in small home it is also the network switch that connects all the home computers together. It is not necessary to connect 4 routers together on the same network because each router will try to assign an ip-adress to each of the computers on the network resulting in many conflicts. If you did want to do this type of network (depending on your circumstances, i know of schools that use routers as small network switches for each room) then I suggest that you disable DHCP and all server attributes of the routers. Then you use a star network configuration for the 4 routers that are connected elsewhere, use long Ethernet cables to link the routers to a network switch each; from there have the 2 remaining network switches in the same room and have them in a redundancy layout. Connect the 4 router and switch pairs to the redundancy pair. This network is very inefficient and very costly but you have the capability to join a small office to a larger office four times over in the same network. It is not recommended that you do this.
The device that connects a computer to a network is typically a network interface card (NIC), which can be either wired (Ethernet) or wireless (Wi-Fi). The NIC facilitates communication between the computer and the network by converting data into a format suitable for transmission. Additionally, routers and switches play a crucial role in directing data traffic on the network, ensuring that information reaches its intended destination.
Even the smallest LAN technically has a backbone, which could be any of the 4 basic topology types. Any time you need to connect various routers, switches, etc., together you connect them via a backbone cable. A backbone may have its own topology as well,such as a serial bus, parallel, distributed, or collapsed backbone. These topologies do not exactly mirror topologies for a LAN or a WAN.
distributed backbone
Routers, Switches, Modems, and Hubs, but mostly Routers
yes each and every device in a network will have unique mac address.
High-end layer 3 switches or routers
Anomaly, network
Simply upgrade your network hardware to 100baseT compatible devices and components, eg: Hubs, switches,routers, cables and computers(network cards)