I got a hub, and I noticed that it has an Uplink port and 8 other ports.
Is the Uplink port functionally equivalent to the other 8?
Thanks.
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Aug 07, 2006
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Maybe, but -most- of the time that you see an Uplink port on something, it indicates that the device is a switch and not just a hub.
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in part:
It usually has an internal cross-over, and when in use one of the plain ports often must be un-occupied.
-- Robert
Most of the time I saw this it was a port wired such that a non-crossover cable would work from the uplink port to a regular port on another hub.
But it's been more than a few years.
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