Ethernet at 1000 Mb/s (1 Gb/s). Can be over copper or fiber. There are different types of fiber.
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How do I verify the speed of my NIC?
I just installed a new gigabit network interface card (NIC) in Linux. How do I tell if it is really set to gigabit speeds? I see ethtool has an option to set the speed, but I can't seem to figure out how to report its current speed.
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What is the minimum Ethernet cable length for a Cat 6 gigabit connection?
We run a Netgear GS724Tv3 switch and part of the configuration per port is an option for "Lower Power Mode". The documentation for the switch lists this feature as a "Green Ethernet Configuration" feature:
A cable test is performed when this is
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How many network switches can I daisy chain together
We have a number of custom computer systems that need to be networked and temporarily installed around a football stadium - each computer has it's own network switch. These computers all need to be networked to a central computer. Up to this…
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What am I misunderstanding about calculating MTU?
Okay, I just finished resolving a jumbo frames issue between a few Xserves, a Netgear GSM7224, and a Drobo B800i. It turned out that the Xserves (Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server) and the Drobo B800i accept the MTU in bytes as normally expected (1500-9000),…
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Max distance for cat5e in 1000Mbps / 1 Gigabit
What is the max distance for cat5e cables in 1000Mbps (1 Gigabit) Full Duplex mode?
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Long Gigabit Ethernet Run
I am trying to get an Gig-E network between two buildings that are approximately 260 ft. away. While some TRENDnet switches failed to be able to connect to each other over Cat 6 at that distance, two Netgear 5-port Gig-E switches do so just fine.…
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Which tool should I trust, mii-tool and ethtool don't show me the same values
Our hosting company provides all the switching infrastructure for our servers. The private network, connected to eth2 should be GbE. Recently I've been suspecting that something is misconfigured as cacti graphs never appear to show more than 100mbit…
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How long do managed gigabit ethernet switches take to boot up?
One critical drawback that I have found in researching managed-switches, and one that I have some past experience with is that anything with "lots" of firmware is going to have lots of issues associated with that firmware.
We are in the middle of…
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Gigabit with cat5 cable
Can a standard cat5 cable transmit at a speed of 1000 Mbit/s ?
I've asked several people I know in the networking field and received different answers. I know a cat5 "works" on a Gigabit network but does it give the same performance of a cat5e or…
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What Ethernet twisted pair cable is best with a particular Ethernet switch
tl;dr I want the appropriate Ethernet cable for my Ethernet switch. How do I correlate Ethernet cabling speeds measured in hertz with an Ethernet switch "speed" measured in bits-per-second bandwidth?
There are several Ethernet twisted pair cabling…
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Can't set up NIC to establish Gigabit link on Linux
I have Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits with one (actually two, but only one is connected) Intel 82578 Gigabit Network Card which is working on 100 Mbps and I want it to work on 1000 Mbps, but I can't. How can I find out what's wrong?
Here's what happens when I…
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What is theoretical maximum of TCP traffic over GigaEthernet?
What is theoretical maximum of TCP traffic over GigaEthernet ?
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Gigabit ethernet generally faster than Firewire 800?
If I want to transfer a large file between two computers, which are connected via LAN, would going through the network (setup as gigabit ethernet) be faster than using a direct Firewire 800 connection between the computers? If Firewire 800 is much…
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Bonding 2 or more Gigabyte NIC together to get 2Gbps performance between 1 server and 1 client?
I have not gotten the server or the NIC yet, but here is the target setup:
1x Server
1x Client
1 or more NIC linked point to point between the Server & Client (No switch involved)
So I am wondering if it is possible to setup some form of bonding…
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What is faster? A local mechical hard drive or a solid state drive over gigabit ethernet?
SSDs are rather new, so I couldn't find this information on the Internet.
Would the performance of a local hard drive connected using SATA2 get out performed by a SSD over gigabit ethernet?
In terms of both latency and bandwidth, mechanical hard…
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