The following essay attempts to prove that networking
hardware are incompatible and work at different speeds. The writer
contends that these factors can also slow down the overall speed of the LAN. Random Access Memory
hardware systems and Central Processing Unit hardware systems are made reference to. From the paper: "On certain LAN
configurations, such as the Bus and the Ring, an increase in the number of nodes, slows down the LAN. This is because Bus and Ring are designed in such a way that a data packet meant for a particular workstation, gets exclusive rights to the entire LAN cable. In other words, while a packet moves from its source to destination, no other packet is allowed on the network cable."