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Context:

In a quest to convert my home from 100Mbps to gigabit, I encountered this device. Cables from the wall are coming in, Ethernet cable going out. As far as I understand, this device converts the interface for the signal, not the signal itself.

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  • Connection: My computer is connected to it, and from it straight to the router.
  • Router: Netgear VEGN2610 supports gigabit
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte h97-hd3 supports gigabit

In windows, my speed & duplex settings are "1.0 Gbps Full Duplex", however, the connection speed says: "100 Mbps"

Questions:

  • What is the name of this device? I want to research online, but I don't know what device I am researching
  • Can it be the bottleneck? If not, why even though all of my network is 1 gigabit, it still uses 100Mbps?
Amit
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It's a patch panel. Assuming it's Cat5e rated, you should have no problem running GigE over it.

EEAA
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