Re: Imagine...
> No switches... because 'manglement' decided "we don't need those"...
Imagine all that on 10Mb/s HUBS - because manglement decided - after being told in no uncertain terms that they had to sort it 2 days into the first term where noone could do anything - that switches were too expensive and it's only a student network.
Cue the entire thing going titsup when 36 students startup office simultaneously (and multiply by N classrooms all doing much the same thing at the same time).
Now connect that into the admin network (also hubbed) with no isolation between student and staff systems.