The main difference being that the gigabit parts have to be much smarter than either 10 or 100Mb stuff. Because it is both talking and listening on each pair at the same time you need to use echo cancelation wihich involves DSPs......... All I can say is it must have been a great day for the guys at Broadcom when they plugged that baby in an you could actually move data with it. -----Original Message----- From: Brian [mailto:lxy at cloudnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:12 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] High Speed Network Connection On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, steve wrote: > Which is interesting being that it transmits and receives on all 4 > pairs at the same time. Reeeaaaalllyy... that's interesting! It always bothered me that ethernet could be up to 200 Mbit/sec (400 full duplex) if someone would just make use of those extra pairs. No recabling needed, no change in BICSI standards, just switches and NICS that are smarter than the average NIC. -Brian _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list