You say you didn't loose any packets pinging the PER but was the latency that horrible pinging the provider edge router from the branch router or was that latency observed when you ping something from branch to say your corporate head end site ?Later...
You answered your own question when you read the TIA spec's It is backwards compatible.If you have an old device that needs cat 5 for instance read that as it needs at LEAST cat 5 peformance.Cat 6 was introduced to allow higher bandwidth and better i...
Vendors call it a lot of things but you want to look for G.652 compliant fiber for most SMF applications.If you need a G.653-657 you are doing something pretty specialized.Single mode has a MUCH smaller core ( 9 micron IIRC) than MMF.While that cover...
With a hub all workstations are essentially on the same wire and every port sees every packet.A switch will build mac address tables and forward most traffic intelligently.So a dumb switch isn't a hub.I guess you could say the switch, even a toy one,...
Might be worth a quick check of arp for the ip of the switch having issues ( 10.82.142.213 ) in the L3 for this subnet.Make sure the router for the subnet and the switches are all in agreement as to the mac of 10.82.142.213 before following the mac h...