That’s the one I have! Can’t make it work with either my Q840AV or my new PB540c, at least with a Netgear switch. So you think it might be only a half-duplex unit? Dang, that sucks, I’ll have to replace it with a better one now. Bah. Yet another thing to put on my watch list on fleaBay. Does anyone know a way to check the duplexity of one of these things?
(If duplexity isn’t a word, it is now. :¬Þ)
My network is actually a little on the complex side. We have a Comcast *spit* all-in-one cable modem / IP telephony terminal adapter / 4-port gigabit/wireless-N router unit where the cable service comes into the house, with a gigabit wired network between various devices downstairs (my wife’s Windows box, the hulking all-in-one-except-double-sided-printing scanner/printer her office got rid of a few years ago, the boys’ elderly Wintel laptops during the 50% of the time that their wireless connections are acting flaky, and so on). Then there’s a wireless-N connection to various devices throughout the house, including my 2007 Mac Mini (which I’m pretty sure can only do wireless-G) upstairs. The Mini then shares its AirPort connection to its wired network interface, off which is hung a 5-port 10/100/1000 switch, off which is hung an 8-port 10/100 switch, the latter of which is seriously overkill most of the time, but I have a few vintage 10bT devices that get connected to the 10/100 switch (though usually only one is powered up at a time, so it really is overkill). Still, better to have it and not need it than the reverse, say I.
Looking at this it seems my only options are (1) replace the AAUI dongles to match the known-working Asanté unit or Hrududu’s Dayna ones, (2) get a plain 10bT switch to use in place of the 10/100 unit (but I still don’t know if that would definitely work—how sure are you, Unknown_K, and does it have to be a 3Com?), and (3) get an actual router matching dafoomie’s known-working configuration to use in place of the 10/100 switch. That last one sounds like a lot of trouble to go to.
Can anyone else recommend known-working brand combinations?