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Thread ID: 41400	2004-01-10 01:00:00	Gigabit LAN/ 10/100mbits LAN compatibility question	Wilky (776)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
206429	2004-01-10 01:00:00	Hi, my parents are building a new house, and I requested that there be network slots all through it. We will have 5 slots, 4 for PC's and 1 for an Xbox. I requested a gigabit lan, CAT6 cable, all the fancy stuff. But now as construction is beginning, I am starting to have second thoughts. Can you plug a computer with a 10/100 network card into the network? More importantly, will the XBOX be able to plug in? Because if not, I'm going to have to request a change for compatibility. Please help, this is rapidly becoming urgent. Thanks.	Wilky (776)
206430	2004-01-10 01:02:00	Gigabit lan is backwards compatible. No problems there. Lo.	Lohsing (219)
206431	2004-01-10 01:04:00	Sweet, thanks. So even the Xbox will be able to handle it? Cause you can't exactly load new drivers onto the Xbox. Just have to be 100% sure, cause I can't change the cables once they are in there.	Wilky (776)
206432	2004-01-10 02:19:00	You have got the Ethernet wiring planned in a proper star configuration? That is, from each wall socket, the cables all go to one common place (for a hub/switch --- probably very near the telephone input. ). Telephone sockets are just daisychained -- unless you are going to have a PABX, in which case you need a similar star arrangement.	Graham L (2)
206433	2004-01-10 19:22:00	buh... too much jargon for me. We're having a comms hub with filters, a router, etc, and all the wires will be going there.	Wilky (776)
206434	2004-01-10 20:30:00	What Graham is saying is that while its common practice for phone wiring to loop from socket to socket, ethernet must not be run that way. Ethernet cables should run back to the hub only, and what you describe suggests they will be.	godfather (25)
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