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Originally Posted by smee init
No smaller the cable the better, and if the switch is not an old one i.e hub as people can get confused then it will act as a direct link thats what switches do hubs send info to all ports in use so either its your switch that only runs at 100Mbits or your NIC and it did come from ebay so probably not new is it? Does the plexus one run at 1000?
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Yes.
It was new it was a buy it now, came in a sealed box I know the card can work at 1000Mbit since it does it fine if I wire both of them directly togther btw they are auto sensing since they don't care if its crossover between them or not.
The Switch is defiantly a switch, Hub's aren't that easy to get thesedays and I've not seen one that works at gigabit.
It's definatly ok with running some ports at Gigabit and some at 100Mbit/s since it's been doing that since day1
Not sure it's a chipset issue since both the plexus and pluscom cards have the same Realtek chipset.
Nic in the "Sever" machine will often Auto negotiate 1Gbit/s but transfers are so slow its unusable, If I manually switch it to 100 Full duplex in the properties it works fine @ 100Mbit/s
I swapped the NIC's over and when it was in my desktop it would only Auto Negotiate 100Mbit/s if I tried to force it to 1Gbit it would simply drop the connection altogether.
Slightly different drivers on the desktop as it run vista x64 where as the other machine is running win 2k3 r2
It's either the NIC itself or something about it doesn't like that switch, I'm not that bothered with it at the moment I may eventually get around to replacing that NIC with a different one to see if it solves the problem (IT wasn't expensive)