Under what circumstances can/will a 10BASE-T device slow down a 100BASE-T or faster network?
- by Fred Hamilton
Suppose I have a 10BASE-T device, but everything else on my network is 100BASE-T or faster. When I attach the 10Mbit device, one of two things could happen:
It could be passed through as 10BASE-T, making whatever it's connected to slow down to 10BASE-T, or
It could be converted to a higher speed.
I'm looking for all the plausible examples…