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by rincebrain 1888 days ago
Auto sensing only became mandatory with 1GbE - before that, you still needed a crossover patch cable. :)
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alanfranz 1888 days ago
Well, 1Gbit ports are quite common since... ten years? Maybe more? And there are a lot of 100mbit devices which are autosensing BTW.
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rincebrain 1888 days ago
Probably longer, for 1GbE. Time flies. :)

I've never encountered an autosensing 100mbit device, though.

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alanfranz 1888 days ago
Wikipedia seems to agree with you. It's entirely possible that my memory is wrong. Or that I think that I'm younger than I actually am :-)
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