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"Erick" <NOewprattSPAM(a)sc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> To put in simple terms, you must first have a router if planning on using
> broadband on multiple computers. The router determines what is coming in
> and
> where it's going, thus the term router.
>
> A hub, however, is like a busy intersection with no traffic lights: the
> traffic goes wherever it wants to go with no control.

its even more of a mess with a hub. At the busy intersection with no lights,
when traffic comes along one road, it leaves down every road including the
one it came up!