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Maybe the distance of connection is a bit long so the cable you use is not good enough for 1Gbps. Try more expensive cable. 
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Maybe the distance of connection is a bit long so the cable you use is not good enough for 1Gbps. Try more expensive cable.

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Arabia, <br />
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We are on CAT6 certified cabling. The distance is max 45m to the switch. We have also tried changing LAN data points and no other PC is encountering this.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Joo
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Arabia,

We are on CAT6 certified cabling. The distance is max 45m to the switch. We have also tried changing LAN data points and no other PC is encountering this.

Cheers
Joo

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We have a new Dell PC(T3400, 4GB ram, Dual CPU, WinXP x64 SP3) &nbsp;that randomly drops from 1Gbps to 100Mbps. It is connected to a 3Com 48port Gigabit Ethernet switch. <br />
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We have tried:<br />
- changing the PC patch cable, switch patch cable, <br />
- changing switch port, <br />
- changing connection to another 24port GBE switch, <br />
- reinstalling NIC drivers,<br />
- changing the LAN data patch point,<br />
- If I force the managed switch port to be 1Gbps, the PC is unable to connect,<br />
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I added in a PCI GBE NIC and the PC connection is back to 1Gbps.<br />
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Any suggestions?<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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We have a new Dell PC(T3400, 4GB ram, Dual CPU, WinXP x64 SP3)  that randomly drops from 1Gbps to 100Mbps. It is connected to a 3Com 48port Gigabit Ethernet switch. 

We have tried:
- changing the PC patch cable, switch patch cable, 
- changing switch port, 
- changing connection to another 24port GBE switch, 
- reinstalling NIC drivers,
- changing the LAN data patch point,
- If I force the managed switch port to be 1Gbps, the PC is unable to connect,

I added in a PCI GBE NIC and the PC connection is back to 1Gbps.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

PC drops from 1Gbps to 100Mbps

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