Safe.com 8 Port 10/100Mbs Fast Ethernet Switch

How is your cabling?

Switches usually either work, or they don't (dead ports are common). A split pair in cabling will cause a high error rate, and low throughput.

-- Robert

In article , Robert Redelmeier wrote: :Stephen Brown wrote: :> Bought this goodie from e-buyer, for about a ?5. Expected :> it to live up to 100Mbs and found it only capable of 3.4% :> of that value.

:Switches usually either work, or they don't (dead ports are :common). A split pair in cabling will cause a high error rate, :and low throughput.

Also, a duplex mismatch will lead to speeds about what the OP noted, when transfering in one of the two directions.

All ports report 100Mbs and I tried Auto and Forced. No luck.

But that just gives more credence to mis-wired cabling or duplex mismatches. 10Base-T is very forgiving. 100Base-T is not.

Just got a report back from e-buyer, they say the hub was "dropping connections", don't know if thats a mad up excuse to send me another one or a problem that can be had.

Just got a report back from e-buyer, they say the hub was "dropping connections", don't know if thats a mad up excuse to send me another one or a problem that can be had.

- Stephen