[tech] New UWA network interface options

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011, David Adam wrote:

> The problem with the first option, which I discovered with a trill of gay 
> laughter after having spent many hours trying to get it working, is that 
> you can't connected any 100 megabit devices to a copper GBIC. However, I'm 
> not convinced that our uplink copper cable will support gigabit traffic. 
> Also I will ask the club for $50 to recoup part of the cost of new fans 
> and GBICs. [*]

Ah, no multi-rate gbics for the Cisco 3508? Shame.

> Alternatively, if we can talk [AHC] into selling or donating the Cisco 
> 2948G living in the machine room (which has 48 10/100 ports but two GBIC 
> slots), we could use that if our uplink doesn't support Gigabit speeds.

I'd honestly prefer you guys run some cat5e? :) Or get some fibre run?
Because any other solution is unfortunately filled with "what do we do if
it breaks?" questions. :/



Adrian