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From: "Carlos Alvarez" <carlos at televolve.com>
I was careful to specify it would be a switched network. We'd be putting in new switches. The cabling is likely old, and was used with a standard PBX previously.
And here is the most important bit. Everyone's advice amounts to "10mbs cabling isn't a problem because it's 10 mbs... it's because 10mbs means it's old". And you've provided the other important bit: it wasn't originally being used for Ethernet. That strips off a whole-nother layer of good assumptions we can make about the installed cabling, like that it used to successfully pass 10mb/s ethernet traffic. I gather that's not true, so you will probably have to reterminate all of it, and you aren't completely guaranteed that some voice guy didn't take voice-grade liberties with it in the middle, like 66 blocks or beanies, which will *also* downcheck it for data, even at 10mbs. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274