Does plugging a Gigabit switch into a 10/100 device slow down traffic for all devices?

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Published on 2010-04-18T03:21:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 3:23 UTC
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If I have a gigabit switch connected to three machines, two of which have Gigabit NICs and one of which has a 10/100 switch, will the traffic between the two fast machines be 100MBps or 1000Mbps?

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