Ethernet Port Settings: Difference between revisions

For 100Mb100Mbit/s links (and below) the service is presented using a normal Ethernet (copper) RJ45 connector. You use a normal cat-5 Ethernet patch lead to connect this to your switch, router or firewall as you required.

IMPORTANT the link is configured as fixed full duplex. This means that if it is connected to aan un-managed switch or un-configured port on a switch, router or firewall then it will not work correctly. It will seem to work, but as soon as any reasonable level of traffic flows there will be dropped packets seriously hindering upload speeds. You must have a managed switch or port connected to the link and configure the port to be fixed full duplex 100Mb100Mbit/s for it to work correctly. We can supply a small managed switch for this purpose if you require.

For 1Gb1Gbit/s the link is presented using single mode fibre on SC connectors, and you will need a fibre port and fibre patch lead to connect to the service. We can supply a media converter if you require which will convert to RJ45 copper Ethernet.

For 10Gb10Gbit/s you will need special 10Gb10Gbit/s equipment, contact sales when ordering for details.

Normally the link you have can carry one or more services on the link - the common one being 10Mb10Mbit/s internet access. However the same link can have internet access and site-to-site access, and multiple such services and different speeds. We also offer a dedicated site-to-site fibre as well.

Where there is more than one service on the link then all of the services will have a VLAN tag. This is used to differenciatedifferentiate between the services. In this case site-to-site access can use Q-in-Q double tagging to pass VLAN tags to the other site. The internet access does not have any secondary VLAN tagging that would apply.