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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ah that's interesting. Thanks!

What does 10/100/1000 mean?

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That’s that speed the ports are capable of. 10/100/1000 megabits per second. Most things with an Ethernet port nowadays are 10/100/1000 capable, and 2.5Gb is becoming reasonably common.

Weirdly, Roku and other smart TVs are often only 100Mb capable since 4k streaming only requires about 60Mb and if you are squeezing pennies a 1Gb port is a bit more expensive.

10Gb is just starting to get available for high end consumer devices.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 50 minutes ago

So is it some ports support 10, some support 100, and some support the full 1000? Or how does it work with the three different speeds?