Networking Fundamentals

Disadvantages

I have mentioned already that a bus topology is great for a small network; however, as your network grows it becomes less and less efficient. Therefore, any company growth needs to be factored in when planning a network, particularly if you are leaning toward implementing a bus topology. The more devices you add, the more collisions will occur. I would concede, however, it is unlikely in this day and age that you would implement a bus topology network.

Although this type of network is resilient to a single device failure, the backbone cable serves as a single point of failure. If some break occurs on that one cable, then the whole network is lost. This is further exacerbated by the fact that a bus topology can be quite difficult ...