3.1 – Networking Devices, Topologies

Many network devices are available, but just few are very useful in networking and very important for any type of network. Some of the devices are listed below.  Hub  Switch  Router  Bridge  Repeater  Wireless Access point Hub Hub is a network device that is used to connect more than two computers or computing devices with one another. Hub has one big drawback that leads to hub down. In a Hub-based network, when one computer sends data to another computer, the data first goes to the hub and then hub broadcasts this data to all computers connected to the hub. This unnecessary…