100BaseT

100BaseT

Drawbacks of bus topology

I would suggest using start topology over bus topology because of some of the major setbacks of the bus topology that are mentioned below.

It is immensely difficult to administer and troubleshoot a bus network.

The length of the cable is limited which results in a limitation for a major drop off in the number of stations that could use a bus network.

If some problem occurs in the cable, than the entire network goes down, and it takes a long passage of time to troubleshoot the network, and a lot of time is wasted.

The cost of maintenance of a star network is very high.

In case some additional computers are added to the limited network of bus topology, this results in a detraction of the performance of the whole network.

Star Topology

It is one of the most common types of network topology, which is used in offices and homes. Star topology consists of a central point of connection which is known as the hub which is a hub for the computers, sometimes it is also referred to as the switch. Star topology needs extensive amount of cables for creating a network connection as compare to the usual bus topology. One of the common types of cables that are used in the creation of start topology is known as the twisted pair cable. Other common cables include UTP, Ethernet cables, or theRJ45.

In a start network entire network depends on the hub, if the network goes down, and stops working than the hub itself will stop working. This is a feature which makes it easy to troubleshoot a network problem by just offering a single point for the connection of error, but the another important fact is that the whole network is depending completely on that single point of connection (Start Topology, ...