Differences
The star topology has one failure point, the hub, unlike the
bus topology. Removing the hub of the star topology leads
to the failure of the nodes as communication breaks
(Andrea, 2022). The bus topology continues to operate
even if one node is removed.
The star topology uses more cabling because each node is
connected to the central node, hence costly. On the other
hand, the bus topology uses one cable because a single
transmission line is used (Andrea, 2022).
The star topology is easy to troubleshoot because of the
different network transmission, whereas the bus topology
is difficult to troubleshoot because it has a single
transmission line.
The bus topology experiences too much Collison because
of a single transmission line, whereas ring topology has
fewer collisions (Andrea, 2022).
Ring topology performs better than bus topology because
it utilizes tokens in its transmission.
The star and ring topology has one failure point, whereas
mesh topology has fault tolerance due to redundancy
(Andrea, 2022).
The star, bus, and ring topology are easy to set up,
whereas the mesh topology is complex because each
node has more than one connection (Ganney, 2016).
The mesh topology is very expensive to set up because it
uses many cables compared to bus, star, and ring
topology.
The bus topology has a slow response time because each
node transmits at a time. In contrast, the mesh topology
has a high transmission response time as many devices
transmit the data simultaneously (Ganney, 2016).
Similarities
