In article , CJT wrote:
You sure about that? My recollection is that Gigabit uses all 8.

I'll check, I've don't think so, but occasionaly I'm wrong. :-)

Not sure what you mean by that. The electronics can't tell whether you
(consistently) swap the white+color and color, as long as you keep the
pairings intact. But they will certainly balk at mixing a wire from one
pair with a wire from another pair.

Yes, that's true.


If by "direction" you mean X vs II, then it's probably a switch.
Or do you mean duplex?

All 10/100 hubs are by switches. How else could they adjust the speed?

Geoff.


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