[tech] New UWA network interface options

[David Adam]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> 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.

According to random web searches, multi-rate GBICs are Not A Thing, 
anywhere, ever. Gigabit Interface Card means just gigabit.
 
> > 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. :/

Based on the prices [MRD] posted a little further down the list, I think 
getting a couple of pairs of copper run makes sense (if our current link 
won't do Gigabit, which I find highly likely). I know we're supposed to be 
moving to a different building in the not too distant future, but 
gigabit-ish Internet seems like something cool that we should do. I would 
donate $50 towards the project.

[DAA]