Multicasting can be done on a hub but a hub does not need it always. Configuring a router or switch to use multicasting requires that the router or switch be IGMP capable.
Yes, switch as well as hub and router are network devices.
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switch and hub
If you don't have enough ethernet sockets in a router, you can plug a switch or a hub into the socket. The hub or switch will supply support for additional ethernet cables.
Connections between any two equipments of the same kind. For purposes of cabling, you can consider computers and routers as one kind of equipment, and switches and hubs as another kind. This aids in remembering which cable to use. So, you need a crossover cable to connect computer-computer; computer-router; router-router; hub-hub; hub-switch; switch-switch.
A hub, a switch, a router. They are all what you have described. A hub is a central point of a computer network. A switch is a series of ethernet ports with no wireless functionality. A router can have both wireless and wired capabilities, but can also have a modem built in.
You can use a router or a hub.
This is actually just a modem. A hub is a device with multiple ports for connecting computers to each other. A hub is now rarely used as a network switch is a faster more reliable device. Confusion comes from people like BT who supply what they call a home hub, which is actually a wireless router, they use the term home hub to refer to the central point (as in hub of a wheel) connection, probably because it's bright young designers never heard of a network hub! A modern wireless router normally consists of a combined router, 4 or 5 port network switch and wireless access point in one, and a non wireless one is the router and network switch Mohammad Talha 009746411902
A router. The key word is create. you can not create a domain using a switch, repeater, or hub.
It takes two or more computers and a hub, switch, or router and some Cat5 cable with ends.
no, A LAN is a network between a small amount of computers through a router , hub or switch