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Re: Gigabit Nics
cat5e minimum I did have a short length of cat6 I tried.
The switch is a simple 8 port home/small office jobbie so unmanaged I can't set the port speeds on the switch.
I know the port works fine as the other gigabit NIC will talk fine to the network using it as will my macbook and so did the Previous machine I used to have on that port (Had an x2 3800+ as the nas/server but the motherboard was dieing on it)
Currently My network is only 100Mbit's as I've moved everything around and I don't have a long enough cable to direct link those 2 machines together.
I might try it again and see if it behaves this time, wouldn't be due to the cable Length at all would it? I was using Short patch cables (under 2Meteres mostly) I know the maximum is 100M but is there a minimum lengh at all?
Don't know why that NIC doesn't like the switch but it doesn't as I said earlier it barely beats a 56k modem for transfer speeds, Force it into 100Mbit/s Full duplex and it's perfectly happy will hit that no problem.
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