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What is the difference between them and what are they needed for and benefits of having them for a home network and to make it more secure?
Originally posted by Glaanieboy
In short:
Hub: A box if you want, that receives networkdata and send them out to all computer connected to it.
Switch: The same as hub, except it looks at the networkdata to see what's their destination and send it out. If you want a fast network with more than 2 computer working on the network at once, you must use this.
Router: Same as switch, but it can send out networkdata to other networks as well. For example, if you have a network based on 192.168.1.x addresses, you can't send out data to a 10.x.x.x based network with a hub/switch. A router is able to do this.
Hope this clears up.