> I am benefiting from it for sure. I guess what I was asking > originally was if the higher frequency rated cables will give it more > headroom since the 100BaseTX ethernet does push CAT5 to the limit.
100BaseTX is specified to run on Cat5 cabling, and with proper Cat5 cabling you get a a BER of 10^-8 or better. As long as your cabling meets the Cat5 spec, you'll get 100 Mbps - there's no possibility of "more headroom" with cables rated to higher frequency. Note that 100BaseTX is different from 10BaseT (but similar to synchronous serial lines) in that there is always a signal present. Note also that FreeBSD can easily saturate 100 Mbps Ethernet. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
