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clients get their display from the server, a slow link to the server
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would be a bottleneck for the whole lab.</p>
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<p>The front panel of the switch shows a light for every network cable
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that's been plugged in. The light shows whether the link is up,
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whether there is traffic and what its speed is.</p>
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<p>The cables from the workstations all terminate at the switch. If
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you don't label them, they get very hard to tell apart!</p>