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Originally Posted by General Maximus
wrong. Each port on the switch will auto negotiate it's link speed with the client. You can quite happily have a legacy device running at 100mbits on one wired connection to the switch whilst two other devices with gigabit nics each have gigabit link speeds to each port on the switch and communicate to one another >100mbits
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Not always in my experience. I have had issues with LAN transfers (PC > PC) running at ~11MB/sec and couldn't get them to bump for anything. Then I realised the TV was plugged into the router (100Mbps NIC), so I unplugged it and voila - full transfer speeds between the PCs again.