Shared Workgroup Hub
A small LAN connected to a router with
workstations A, B, and C, a server and a networked printer.

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All is quiet

Workstation A sends data packets...

...to the printer. Because of the shared hub, everyone "hears" them

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While A is printing, C attemps to hit the Internet

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Simultaneous communication causes a collision and all communication stops to be resent later

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