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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:35 am 
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After feeling the urge for more speed and since all my network interface cards were 1000BT I thought it would have been a simple matter by just replacing my existing 100BT switch.

I got one of these 3com switches

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/deta ... ku=3CGSU08

plugged everything in and saw that most devices went active except:

- my NASlite server which has a Netgear GA311 card did not connect at all. There was no link to the switch. There is no network connectivity whatsoever. Using other cables did nothing. After reverting back to the old 100Mbit switch the NIC connected without problems!

- My WinXP HTPC with an ASUS P4P800E Deluxe mobo with builtin marvell Gigabit NIC only connected at 100Mbit. This could be a cable issue.

My first thoughts are cabling which has is currently Cat5e.
The cable from the switch to the NASlite server is about 4feet long and the cable from the HTPC to the switch about 80feet long.

My primary concern is the NASlite server, which I cannot figure out at all how to troubleshoot. I conected a monitor to it, rebooted and everything seems normal.

I am out of ideas and I would appreciate any advice on how to go about getting things to work....


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:06 am 
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You need to use straight TP cable for gigabit, maybe you're using a crossover one?


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:17 am 
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Thanks superboss.

I am using straight connections but after reading up a bit, Gbit uses all 4 pairs which means that if one of the 8 cables is not crimped correctly then it will not work. It still doesn't explain however why it would not drop down to 100Mbit.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:14 pm 
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In any case I'd replace the 5e from the NASLite box to the switch with a high quality cat6 one just to eliminate possible cabling issues. Keep us updated!


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:14 pm 
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I changed the cable to a ready made CAT6 and the server now connects. That's one down! :)

BTW is there any info in the logs of NASlite to confirm that the box connects at 1Gbps?


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:13 pm 
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BTW is there any info in the logs of NASlite to confirm that the box connects at 1Gbps?


Some drivers will report and others will not. Let me give that one some thought.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:19 am 
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Tony wrote:
Let me give that one some thought.


It would be useful if something could be done because most consumer level switches don't have any link speed indicators nor do they have a management interface.


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