Yeah, writing reviews helps quite a bit. The router/hub question was a bit weird. Usually a router refers to something that takes a network, and connects the entire thing to a bigger network, like say, the Internet. A switch however, is a smart hub. It will send your packets of data to where they need to go, and no where else, much much much better for high traffic networks, even with the full duplex "dumb hubs" you run into quite a few collisions and congestion. But, with a switch you cut down on total network traffic, allowing for better networking experience. It really depends on the network, what you should get, being the price differences are not exactly small.

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Tyler Ritchie
Project Coordinator
Silicon Insight
tyler@siliconinsight.com