[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> BTW, just for the record 1000BaseT is not 1000 megabits per second ethernet.
> It's four 250meg connections operating in parallel.

It's 1000 megabits/s, just not 1000MHz.

> I also have no idea of what happens when one of the connections stops
> working, do you loose them all, or does it just slow down?

It's no-longer 1000baseT, then.  A reasonable controller will attempt to
renegotiate at 100baseTX.

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