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Switch or Hub

I have two ip add's from my isp and three comp's, one notebook logs onto work, the other two are home use, will one of those small switch's from best buy seperate the two ip add's, i want one ip add. and cable straight to the notebook, the other line  will go to router for the two desktop's, or will a small hub do the same thing. out from the hub to the laptop, the other line to the router, switch or hub?
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Hey ezy.

Either a hub or a switch should do what you are talking asking.
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a hub is worse and finding one will be difficult, if you can find a cheap one let me know because I need a hub for an experiment
A hub??? what's that??? I think it went the way of the 8-track...

As the others have said a switch would be best.

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Thanks to all who responded, will get the switch.
first thanks for the points,

second, I was thinking the exact same thing snerkel was thinking about 5 years ago and somewhere at home is a 4 port netgear hub; I haven't had the need to do so since I retired the hub as a "mini-lan party" device.  Just as a FYI, most of the managed switches come with a port mirroring feature that will send duplicate traffic to a port you specify; so you can place a sniffer or monitoring device there.

Also we seem to be in a transition point from 10/100mb to 10/100/1000mb switches; while the 10 mb hubs may possibly have a use at the lower end of the spectrum; it may become a point of bottle neck, per the traffic.

But yeah, I may be holding on to my 10mb hub for a little while longer too...

Regards,