> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Low, Adam wrote: > >> Maybe I am missing something here but why would it downgrade their >> network speed to 10mbps, its very rare to find a 100bT switches these >> days that don't also support 10bT. In a switched ethernet network there >> would be no performance loss for the other ports !? > > The cable goes into the phone and then out of the phone into the computer. > That switch in the phone is 10Mbit so the computer ends up on 10Mbit too. > Perhaps the best way to avoid this is to join all the phones together > since they are all 10Mbit anyway, so you will then just need one extra > ethernet socket in the room for all the telephones. > > Michael >
Michael, How would you be able to connect all phones in a room to one socket? The Ethernet specificiation has a limit to the number of hubs/switches that can be inline. (or at least it used to). The only way I can see to connect all phones to one socket would be to daisy chain them. This would not be a good solution since: - all phones would use the same 10mbps segment, chances for collisions would be high - rules of Ethernet would be violated so even if it did work it may stop at any point with some other normally minor change. Robert _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
