What is all the Hub about?
So you can’t get any help from the IT department getting a private printer connected to
your office PC.
So what do you do? You run down to your local favorite “we sell cheap
computer stuff” store and buy a “hub” or “usb...
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What is all the Hub about?
So you can’t get any help from the IT department getting a private printer connected to
your office PC.
So what do you do? You run down to your local favorite “we sell cheap
computer stuff” store and buy a “hub” or “usb multiplier” or something that looks like a
small “Ethernet Switch”.
You take it back to the office, and having send the quick start
guide, you unplug your computer from the wall jack, plug it into your shiny new thing and
run a cable from it to the wall jack.
Then you plug in your new printer! Maybe you go
really geek and add in your own scanner and wireless access port!
Enter VoIP phone deployment.
Anyone that has done a VoIP deployment knows or has
learned the hard way, that “hubs” will kill a VoIP phone deployment! Multiple devices in
a hub will immediately change your ethernet port to half-duplex.
If you put the VoIP
phone behind the hub, you are either using a local power brick or you will not have access
to the POE on the home ether
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