Ethernet at 1000 Mb/s (1 Gb/s). Can be over copper or fiber. There are different types of fiber.
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Local ethernet file transfers slower than internet downloads
I have an SSD drive connected to my router's USB 3.0 port. My computer is connected to the routeur directly through ethernet (no switch) and runs Windows 10. When downloading files from the internet my download speed tops around 40 MB/s. However,…
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Access point Netgear WAX610 Ethernet not working at 2.5Gbps
I've just bought a Netgear WAX610 (https://www.netgear.com/support/product/wax610.aspx) access point. Though it is advertised as coming with a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port, the port actually is working only at 1Gbps.
The access point is attached to a…
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Analyzing an ethernet cable for low negotiating speed
I'd like to find out why my cat 6a refuses to negotiate 1000 speed.
I have a 15 meter long U/FTP CCS cat 6a Ethernet cable installation.
I have analysed the cable with a multimeter and each strand (white, blue, green etc) measures around 3.6 ohm…
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How to differentiate GE, Optic and FC adapter/SFP?
I'm going through old switches laying around and find myself troubled by all the different connection types the PCI adapters and their SFP have.
I found a 10GE (gigabit ethernet?) SFP that says it's a Fiber channel (Brocade 57-0000075-01) and then I…
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Would an extra gigabit ethernet card improve server performance
my setup is the following:
TP-Link TL-ER5120 Gigabit Load Balance Router
The router has 2 WANs and 3 LANs connected to it:
LAN 1 Cable goes to a TP-Link SG-1024 Gigabit Switch (24 gigabit ports)
LAN 2 Cable goes to a wireless router
LAN 3 Cable 3…
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How did 10gbe happen without increasing the number of wires in the cable?
The ethernet cable speed jump from 100Mb/s to 1Gb/s was possible because all of the wires were put to use in a patch cable. The jump from 1Gb/s to 10Gb/s required no such increase. How did they do this?
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'Gigabit' Ethernet Port Tester?
A quick google search shows there seems to only exist handheld testers for 10/100 Ethernet ports. Any ideas why that is and where we could find one that works with a Gigabit LAN? Perhaps the 10/100 would work.
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ethtool Says Speed: 1000Mb/s, So Why, ipref3 Not Exceeding 9M4b/s
I am currently attemping to run iperf3 between two 1000Mb capable ethernet devices, a Raspberry Pi 4 running OSMC (a Debian based Media Server distro) and a Dell XPS 15 laptop running Ubuntu.
The devices are connected to a Gigabit switch using cat 6…
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