How can a single ethernet cable running to a gigabit switch provide multiple connections with gigabit speeds?

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How can a single ethernet cable running to a gigabit switch provide multiple connections with gigabit speeds?

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Answer 1

If one road leads to a roundabout and then out to five other roads, but the speed is 55mph to all the roads, you’ll get that speed to each branch, but you’ll get a traffic jam if they all try and take the same road out.

Very few internet connections are gigabit. It’s usually the choking point, where data on a network can usually move around the network at gigabit speeds.