On Wednesday, August 7, 2013, Philip Homburg  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Tore,<br>
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On 2013/08/07 13:19 , Tore Anderson wrote:<br>
&gt; Today I was struggling to get a v3 probe (TP-Link) connected to my<br>
&gt; network, the link just wouldn&#39;t come up. On a whim I tried connecting it<br>
&gt; to a tri-rate 10/100/100Base-T device, and lo and behold - it came<br>
&gt; alive! Only 100Mb, though.<br>
Yes, probes are 10/100 only. These days it is even mentioned in the FAQ :-)<br>
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(wonders what the advantage is of 1Gbps-only ports)<br>
&gt; Is it really the case that the probes don&#39;t support 1GbE? The probe has<br>
&gt; «150Mb» printed on it, which strikes me as rather odd if it&#39;s limited<br>
&gt; upwards to 100Mb.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>100M full-duplex, thus 200M throughput! :-)</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Maybe the Wifi is technically 150 Mbps? There is also a 3G/4G switch on<br>
the probe. Chinese marketing?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed, 802.11n with a 40M wide channel maxes out at 150M. I&#39;ll guarantee you&#39;ll get higher throughput via wired and lower latency and jitter, plus far fewer hassles. Plug it in and walk away. I&#39;m hoping/expecting that <span></span>RIPE never supports wireless in these probes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Philip<br>
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</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Chris Elliott<br><a href="mailto:chelliot@pobox.com">chelliot@pobox.com</a><br><br>