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What is the effect of using lower Cat# cables in a higher Cat# keystone jacks, when the versions are NOT backwards-compatable?

For most home purposes, you can treat cat 5, 6 and 7 as compatible, at least experimentally, if you're using Rj45 connectors throughout. Cat 8 is restricted to short runs, 30 m or less, and is for ...
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Broadcasting LAN wirelessly?

Is there a way I can connect some device to the switch using ethernet cable, so that it broadcasts that local network over WiFi? Yes, and that is literally what Wi-Fi does most of the time. The ...
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Unable to set MTU size on windows network adapter

Answer: Disabling the option "QoS (IEEE 802.1q) Offloading" in the adapter properties allows me to set the MTU to 1500. I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour, or if disabling the option ...
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Can I still use the Ethernet ports on an ISP's modem after setting it to bridge mode?

So my question is, if I set the Huawei router to bridge mode instead of router mode, would it act as a switch It already acts as a switch for the LAN ports; bridge mode would just add the WAN port to ...
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Arch does not detect modem switching via a mechanical switch

How can I do to have the connection reset automatically? First, watch dmesg -ew or ip monitor to verify that your mechanical switch always causes the Ethernet interface to see carrier loss, i.e. it ...
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Arch does not detect modem switching via a mechanical switch

I fixed it by running in the background this script in python which checks the connection every 20 seconds. And if the check fails, it resets the connection. import os, time def resetConn(): os....
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How can I select only the basic Ethernet interface ipo Virtual Ethernet or other interfaces in a batch with WMIC NICCONFIG?

How can I restrict search of index to a value of 3? I'm not sure that I understand 100% of your question, but where I understand it, I suggest you limit the output of the index: index<=3 index&...
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