Question by Neil: What’s the difference between these common network devices?
Hey. I’m preparing for the IGCSE 10th grade exams, and wanted to know 1 line definitions/descriptions of common network devices like hubs, routers and switches, and what the difference between them is. Like for example, a router is a smart switch which distributes bandwidth only between computers that are on and need it. (that may not be true, idk)
Best answer:
Answer by whizzopia
Router: It is used to connect devices on different network.
Hub and Switch: They are used to connect devices on the same network.
However, Switch is smarter than Hub.
Switch knows the ip address of the device which is connected to each port. Hub doesn’t.
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Look at past papers to study.
Here’s a link to all past papers (and their answers (mark schemes)):
I need to e-mail the link, as there is a bug in the system when I try to give you the link to the website. Error 999 keeps coming up, only when I post up links.
For IGCSE and EDEXCEL papers type this into your url, as I cannot paste it, since it won’t let me post links. the link is supposed to be:
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hope this site helps, it has everything: just download all IB, IGCSE, EDEXCEL papers, mark schemes and grade boundaries from one zipped file.
You can also download the first link to get the link to download IB papers or use this site for the IB PAPERS:
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Please share this knowledge with others, to help them in their exams, as it is very informational and resourceful.
The 2009 papers should be up by July or august, as the site creator puts them on after the exams finish and when they have released the marking schemes.