switch .vs. hub

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From: Nih (Nih_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:19:06 -0800

I currently have a hub in the basement connecting all the cat 5 jacks
throughout the house. I noticed the connection speed on my laptop through
the hub is 10mbps but if i take it upstairs and connect directly to one my my
router's ports it gets 100mbps. I understand hubs are "dumb" devices and
sends the data to all ports but if i get a switch will I get 100mbps on the
laptop downstairs? Does this speed only affect file transferrs between
computers or does it also affect internet speed?

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