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[Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?



On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:36:40PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 9/13/2017 10:13 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable.  scp isn't much slower.
> 
> You're using full-duplex with Cat 5e? You're off spec. And now I'm
> wondering if the data corruption problems you were having a few weeks
> ago were a consequence of it.

No you're just wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE-T

And no one uses 1000BASE-TX.  It is a dead technology.

1000BASE-T practically only runs full-duplex.  The half-duplex variant
is a dead technology.



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