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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mike wrote:

> Actually, switching to half duplex won't really help you a whole lot.. I 
> had a 10mb hub that had the collision light almost always on. If you want 
> to stop the collisions you'll want to replace your hub with a switch.
> 
> Mike

  Hubs are half-duplex by design.  Running full-duplex into a hub will
cause far worse problems than a few collisions.

Tom



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