What are you connecting them with? You are usually restricted by the hub/switch that you use. Most switches allow for different speeds on different ports. This doesn't mean that the same wire is using both, but rather each connection to the switch is running at a different speed. (10 or 100) My switch has leds that tell me what each port is set to. AFAIK, a hub won't work at 2 different speeds. On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > Could someone explain to me in a nutshell how 10mb and 100mb co-exist > happily on the same ethernet? For example, I have 3PCs and a DSL modem on > my local network. 1 PC and the modem have 10mb cards and 2 of the PCs have > 100mb cards. When I transfer a file from one of the 100mb machines it takes > about 5 times less time than when I transfer to the 10mb machine, so it > certainly appears that the network is capable of both speeds. Evidently the > 10mb is able to detect and handle collisions with the 100mb and vice versa. > Perhaps it's because they both use the same carrier frequency; if they use > such a thing? Also, is a 5x speed difference what I should expect? Not > 10x? > > Take pity on me. I'm a software guy. > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list