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will require four-pair Cat 5/5e UTP/STP cable.
When using straight or crossover cable, this is done from the any (MDI/MDIX) port of the Switch
(Switch A) to any of the 10Mbps or 100Mbps (MDI-X) port of the other switch (switch B) or other
devices.
The LNK/ACT, 100 LED indicators light green for hookup to 100Mbps speed or only LNK/ACT light
green for hookup to 10Mbps speed.
Port Speed & Duplex Mode
After plugging the selected cable to a specific port, the system uses auto-negotiation to determine
the transmission mode for any new twisted-pair connection:
If the attached device does not support auto-negotiation or has auto-negotiation disabled, an
auto-sensing process is initiated to select the speed and set the duplex mode to half-duplex.
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