I'm not a vendor and I love bashing vendors. Gimme the content. ;-)
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <li...@packetflux.com> To: "af" <af@afmug.com> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:15:05 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Netgear funny business I've found that in the effort to make gigabit things cheap, one of the main ways people cut corners are to use the worlds cheapest magnetics which mostly work. This is amazingly prevalent in the PoE market, as I've found that it's pretty common for the cheap vendors to use a chinese knockoff of an already questionable set of magnetics. Usually *not* rated for PoE, but works in many circumstances. I really wish I wasn't a vendor because I'd do a set of videos about some of my competition and the horrible sins they've committed in this regards. In this case it looks like they might taken a 'dual 10/100' magnetics and used them for gigabit which assuming all the specs are fine might actually work since 'dual' really means '4 pair'. Is there one set of these for each port? -forrest On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:51 AM, < ch...@wbmfg.com > wrote: Took apart a brand new netgear GS205v2 router. It says 5 port gig router. Interesting that the ethernet magnetics inside will only do 100 mbps... -- Forrest Christian CEO , PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com
