[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Marc Schlensog]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:27:49 +0000 (UTC)
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

> In article <20120304083815.2b29dcd9 at walker.schlensman.homeunix.net>,
> Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > A switch is superior to a hub - unless you need to be able to see
> > all traffic from all connected machines on all connected machines.
> 
> Right, which is why I'm surprised that with a brand-new switch the 
> errors have returned.
> 
> > Anyway, have you tried to manually set the interface speed to
> > 10Mbps?
> 
> No.  However, I don't want to.  I want it to run at 100 Mb/s.
> 

What would be the benefit if all your other boxes run at 10Mbps?