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GS305E Link speed goes down when IDLE
I have a GS305E new, on first floor, to which I've attached 3 LANs, all Cat6a: 2 cables towards to local PCs (a Mac and a Win), one cable to the switch below (longer cable 12meters). When all boo...
I will try to reinstall the firmware, but the current and latest ones are:
Bootloader Version V1.0.0.2
Firmware Version V1.0.0.5
Cannot find 1.0.1 so my take is the original as per 1.0.0.1 - correct ?
Small note: I found also a way to trick the software. So this morning I found it again on 100 Mbit, and through the management console I force the port first to 10Mbit... applied, waited a second, and the put the port setting back to AUTO ... and it got back to 1000 (1 Gbps).
This would further point this is not a cable thing, but some kind of firmware behaviour.
Anyway thanks a lot for support
Sorry please, my mistake - initial was 1.0.0.1, then 1.0.0.3 (multilanguage).
ariolica wrote:Small note: I found also a way to trick the software. So this morning I found it again on 100 Mbit, and through the management console I force the port first to 10Mbit... applied, waited a second, and the put the port setting back to AUTO ... and it got back to 1000 (1 Gbps).
This process will force a re-negotiation on the link.
ariolica wrote:This would further point this is not a cable thing, but some kind of firmware behaviour.
The question is what does cause the link reduction. If we had this on one link, one could think about a cable issue doing short disconnect and reconnect, or not properly run all four pairs as required.
My suspicion is still that the core has some faulty EEE in place.
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