infrastructure between the dormitories and the main campus?
share the segment's bandwidth. If the sharing is significant, the network will be impacted.
The poor performance of the existing LAN is very likely due to users contending with
other users for network bandwidth. These demands on a shared network cause collisions
that result in overall poor performance for all users on the LAN. Collisions are inherent in
Ethernet design. As collision rates increase, network response hits a point of diminishing
returns, and user complaints increase. Also, collisions consume bandwidth.
impact CPU processor performance. Every computer on the segment must process each
network broadcast.
floors.) Why?
signals to each campus floor. Because each floor has its own switch, troubleshooting is
made simpler, and there is no single point of failure.