Nic says 100 base pfsense says 1000 base
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Sure your cable is passing all 4 pairs?
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i quess so i dont have a way to test
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100 will work with just 1,2,3,6. 1000 requires all 8 conductors to be proper.
Try another cable? Or trot down to home depot and get a tester?
At work I have a nice Fluke. Here at home I have a Klein I got in a rush at home depot because I was tired of guessing.
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Just a little quirk of Gbit that I found the other day, might be useful to some reader some day. I had an old-old cable that someone has made themselves with just 4 wires connected. I had plugged it between my (now-modern) laptop with Gbit and a VLAN switch with Gbit. Lights came on at both ends and the devices thought they could do Gbit. The 2 Gbit devices seemed to negotiate Gbit with each other using the 4 wires.
But of course traffic did not flow - the actual traffic is multiplexed on all 8 wires.So it is possible to have a cable with 1,2,3,6 pins good and some or all of the others bad and get Gbit negotiation. It can be a bit tricky to then diagnose why traffic does not flow.
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When I see a cable with just two pairs I cut it in half and throw it away.
Strange you would get gig-e negotiation without all 8. I've never seen that. Troubleshot a 100-should-be-1000 negotiation the other day and found a patch cable with one of the brown wires faulty. New patch cable = gig-e.
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Yes that's a common issue if you have old cables. Can be confusing if you're not aware of it. The initial negotiation takes place over 2 pairs. Many gigabit NICs have features to detect and negate the issue but many cheaper one don't. ::) 'ethernet@wirespeed' is Broadcoms implementation for example.
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php
This has bitten me a number of times now, so I'm ready for it. :)Steve
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the cables going to the wan from the modem and from the lan to switch are cat 6e that i bought last year
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So?
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They could still be bad. Try swapping them. Try swapping switch ports. Try reassigning the LAN and WAN assignments. Try removing the switch completely, as a test just connect a single client directly.
Steve
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sorry went on holiday and busy. the issue was the first switch, it is a fast Ethernet, i switched the switches. I now have full gigabit on both wan and lan. thank you guys for putting up with my ignorance, I greatly appreciate you guys being fast on your responses and taking the time to help me out.
