There is one difference between ResNet service in the new West Campus residence halls and ResNet service elsewhere. The network infrastructure and hardware used in these residence halls has been installed to support Gigabit Ethernet. This is the next step up in network speed from 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) service, which was previously the highest speed available with ResNet.

No, absolutely not. If you don't have a Gigabit Ethernet card, you can use your existing 10, 10/100, or 100 Mbps Ethernet card. You do not need to buy a new Ethernet cards just because you will be living in one of the new West Campus residence halls, and you will still get ResNet performance and speed equal to what you would have in any other residence hall (apart from these two). It only means that you won't have the "latest and greatest." No.

We would recommend purchasing a 10/100/1000 Ethernet card -- one which will also support slower speed networking, besides just Gigabit Ethernet. Currently, Gigabit service is available only in the new West Campus residence halls. If you move to another residence hall or move off campus and wish to use a traditional cable modem or DSL service, you will want to make sure that your Ethernet card will support slower network speeds.

In short, Gigabit Ethernet is the same Ethernet that we already know and use, but 10 times faster than Fast Ethernet and 100 times faster than Ethernet. It also supports additional features that accommodate today's bandwidth-hungry applications and match the increasing power of the desktop and server. Gigabit Ethernet is a transmission technology based on the Ethernet frame format and protocol used in local area networks (LANs) and provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second (one gigabit).

The UNH-IOL Gigabit Ethernet Consortium is an industry-supported organization that works in conjunction with its member companies to provide a neutral test environment and industry accepted test methodologies for the purpose of promoting and fostering interoperability of Gigabit Ethernet devices.

The NE020 family of includes a solution for 1 Gigabit Ethernet. NIC, TOE, and iWARP are all supported on the 1Gb Ethernet products.

The PI3L301D is suggested for Gigabit Ethernet applications. The PI3L301D has the lowest combination of both R-on and C-on in the LAN switch market, resulting in lowest return-loss which exceeds the requirement for the IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit PHY conformance tests spec.

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No. Gigabit Ethernet devices are using all 8 wires for data transferring. Applying POE-100/100S to them will cause unexpected damage.

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Yes! Cartoons are ALWAYS optional (even when the posted model for an item is displayed with cartoons.) We charge a small fee of 60 cents per cartoon persons as their customization requires a little extra work. This is a one time fee is per cartoon characters and separate from the price of stationery items. This means that you can purchase several different types of stationery items within the same order, but you are only charged once for the customized cartoons you order.

Perhaps the primary financial benefit of the Gigabit Ethernet Consortium lies in the assembly and maintenance of a Gigabit Ethernet device interoperability test bed, which is a continually updated collection of representative products from all participating members.

The list of devices currently in our active Gigabit Ethernet interoperability test bed is posted on our GEC Test Bed page.

The Gigabit Ethernet Consortium uses a variety of tools, both commercial and custom-made, for the purposes of performing our testing services. A list of these tools can be found on our Test Tools page.

The Gigabit Ethernet Consortium is always looking for new ways to provide useful testing services to its members. As such, we are always open to suggestions for new types of tests to support, and are always interested in working with specific members to develop new capabilities and test services, particularly if they are beneficial to multiple consortium members.

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To prevent it, 802.3z auto-negotiation requires that, if one side of a connection is configured to auto-negotiate, the other side must also auto-negotiate if the connection is to come up. In other words, if a switch is configured to auto-negotiate and its attached end node is configured to, say, 1000Mbps/full-duplex, the 803.2z spec requires that the switch NOT allow the link to come up.

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POE-150/150S will use 4-wire for data transmission (pair 1, 2, pair 3, 6) and 4-wire for power supply (pair 4, 5, pair 7, 8), thus Gigabit Ethernet device connect to POE-150/150S will not send data over the power wire and the transmit speed shall change to 100Mbps. FSD-803PE supports two power sources, 12VDC and 802.3af, please check which kind of power system deployed. a) Powered from POE: please check with network administrator if the POE injector device is complied with 802.

Category 5 cable is preferred to be using with twisted-pair Ethernet in structured wiring environments. This will ensure correct operation of all ports at 10Mbps, 100Mbps or 1000Mbps. Note that for Gigabit Ethernet, all 4 pairs of the twisted-pair cable are used for transmission and receiving signals.

No. By the time the IEEE issued the 802.3z specification, they knew about the 10/100 Mbps auto-negotiation problem (please see the FAQ "Is 10/100Mbps auto-negotiation the same as Plug-n-Play?"). To prevent it, 802.3z auto-negotiation requires that, if one side of a connection is configured to auto-negotiate, the other side must also auto-negotiate if the connection is to come up.