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Another thought - if your PC is at 100 and the empeg is at 10, the switch would have to bridge your speeds.


Not only that, but there are some 10/100 switches which may work absolutely fine with all 100baseT devices attached, but which deliberately turn everything to 10baseT as soon as you plug one 10baseT device into them.

If your switch is doing this and your PC's network card is locked at 100baseT, then you're going to have massive problems (from absolutely nothing happening, to millions of collisions) as soon as that happens.

First off, you need to check how your NIC is configured in your PC. Is it locked at 100baseT or 10baseT or is it autodetect. Assuming that it is autodetect (or that you set it to 10baseT), I'd try a crossover cable direct from the PC to the Empeg to try to localise the problem - if that works fine, then it's your switch. If it doesn't then you need to try both the Empeg on a different PC and try a different NIC in your present PC.

Nick.


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