Anybody know if I can get a 10/100MBPS ethernet switch where I can select the rate as opposed to auto-sensing.

Link would be good.

Ta

Adrian.

Dont think any let you do that unless its a managed switch.. which is gonna cost a fortune!

cant you just set the speed and duplex on the NICs on the machines?

you can select the rate on the card under windows... but not on the switch unless you go managed... how many ports do you require?

Number of ports....not that many...I should think 4-8 is more than enough.

5 ports 10/100 @ 8+vat.

5 ports 10/100 @ 8+vat.

Paul,

you got a link with more details....interested.

Cheers.

Adrian.

its a little box with ports on it.. its cream unbranded

no link.. just a cheap switch.

thats the prob with trade.. no customer service...

Jeez for that price who needs pics!!

PS does it come with little lights as well?

only a few.

As long as I can set the rates, brand doesn't matter. May well give you a buzz next week on this.

Cheers.

Adrian.

As I read it he didn't say you could - perhaps you could explain why this is a requirement?

Nick - could be a software 'requirement'. I remember here at work that a couple of MS Access 97 databases started throwing wobblies once they were on a 100mb link - the PCs using them had to be dropped down to 10mb and they started behaving again... nothing like older software not handling newer hardware!

Yes Steve, but as most previous posts pointed out, you can (under any reasonably fresh version of Windows anyway (can't answer for *nix)) set the card at the client end to fix the rate. This then just negotiates with the switch at 10Mbps and the switch sets the port accordingly.

If anyone really needs to do this, the D-Link DES-3226S switch is very good value, a 24 port managed switch @

Do some BB home networking testing and I need to be able to control/set the switch rates.

Auto-sensing is no good to me as I need to be able to "bottle neck" as wells as increase through put.

How much are gigabit switches these days?

100meg is struggling for burning dvds over network

Yes Steve, but as most previous posts pointed out, you can (under any reasonably fresh version of Windows anyway (can't answer for *nix)) set the card at the client end to fix the rate. This then just negotiates with the switch at 10Mbps and the switch sets the port accordingly.

I thought that's what I said? :confused: The network link the PCs were on got upgraded, and it was too fast for Access to cope with. Go figure

I thought that's what I said? :confused: The network link the PCs were on got upgraded, and it was too fast for Access to cope with. Go figure

A case of "violent agreement" it seems Sorry if I misunderstood...

Can't we just disagree to agree?

Point was they had to switch the cards (through windows) down to 10mb to get it to work again...

Actually you're both wrong...you can set the speed of the NIC using Windows... :P

Rob.

You can set Nick's speed? Won't he mind?

Depends very much on the speed itself!

Rob.

Actually you're both wrong...you can set the speed of the NIC using Windows... :P

Rob.

Is this true of all switches?

I don't want auto-sensing as I want to be able to "force" a device connected to it to use what I set.

Adrian - are you sure this won't do:?

Start -> Network Connections -> select connection -> properties -> press "configure" on adapter section, at top then "Advanced" you get this:

Is this true of all switches?

I don't want auto-sensing as I want to be able to "force" a device connected to it to use what I set.

Sorry, was being flippant, as they were both disagreeing with each other while stating the same thing, so I figured one more person doing this wouldn't hurt.

To be able to force a device connecting to the switch to be of a certain speed, you'd need a managed switch. You can force the speed of the device connecting to it through Windows though, as in Nick's post...

Rob.