Re: Gigabit network

[ian.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Others have answered this question directly but consider this
too...........

A lot of the home automation gadgets that are appearing now are Ethernet
enabled but because of the embedded nature are only available with 10Mbit
interfaces. As I understand it these won't talk to a 100/1000 interface.
Think of your possible future needs for gadgets.

Secondly, power over Ethernet is becoming popular with new embedded
gadgets supporting it. It uses the 'unused' pairs in a 10/100 interface
for the power. In the Gigabit world there are no unused pairs and you may
find that the majority of these 'new' devices cannot exist on this faster
network. There are ways round this latter point at the design stage but I
have not seen any devices advertising this ability.

Food for thought in the HA world

Ian







"aashram" <groups@xxxxxxx>
25/02/2005 11:07
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Subject:        [ukha_d] Gigabit network



been looking into converting to a Gigabit network and as far as I can see
by simply changing my switches to gigabit I get a good speed increase from

my current 100mb lan

is this right ?








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