Mark Neidorff put forth on 12/25/2010 10:47 AM: > Please explain what you are trying to accomplish and at what network speeds. > Off the top of my head, 10baseT networks used 4 wires and 100baseT used all 8 > wires. If you are trying for 100baseT speeds, you have to use all 8 wires.
If memory serves me well, this is wrong Mark. Both 10BaseT and 100BaseT only use 2 pair, one each direction. 1000BaseT uses all 4 pair, two each direction. 1000BaseTX uses only 2 pair. 1000BaseT can run over Cat5 or above. 1000BaseTX requires Cat 6 or above. Ahh, here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000baseT#1000BASE-T -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d174386.8030...@hardwarefreak.com
