The easiest way I know of to eliminate contention is to go with a switched network. Then all your hosts can babble on full duplex lines and there is no contention, back pressure maybe but no contention. Just make sure that the port going to your router is faster than the other nodes or you end up with a bottleneck in the line connected to the router. For example if all of your hosts are running at 10Mbit speed (full duplex) you would probably want your router port to be running at 100Mbit full duplex. By doing this the usable bandwidth is increased more than you would think because most shared (half duplex) ethernet networks start to break somewhere around 20-30% bandwidth utilization due to tons of collisions. If this doesn't make any sense it's probably because I didn't understand your question. The only way I know of (that you can purchase) to have multiple streams of data running at different frequencies (or wavelengths in this case) is to buy some WDM fiber equipment. But I doubt that you need to move Terabytes per second. SG, O.S.D. > > I was wondering if anyone has >done this already or if it would be impossible. Say you got a network of >10 hosts on a subnet going to a router. As it stands now we transmit to >all the hosts on the subnet simultaneously and this increases traffic on >an ethernet network. We know this slows things down a bit in some cases >because each host is competing for "time" on the network. Is it possible >to modulate each of the hosts's transmissions on the subnet so that each >host is transmitting at a different frequency on the same line? If you >could do that, all the hosts could talk at the same time to the router >without signals bumping into one another if they are all talking at a >different frequency. Wouldn't this significantly increase the amount of >speed that a host could operate on if we didn't have to worry about >contention? > > > - Jamie > > > > > >-- > > "It's pretty hard to stop a man who eats his toast every morning." > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >