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Switches are almost always faster than hubs and send out less data than hubs as well, these reason for this is the same; when a hub gets data from any connected device it sends the message to all connected devices, a switch just sends it to the device that it is for. As such switches are seen as "smarter" devices than hubs, which is another advantage.

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