(08-17-2016, 02:22 AM)pfeerick Wrote:(08-16-2016, 12:08 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: I did mean that most people are not using it; and by most people I mean that most 'people with pine boards' are not using GbE, and that most 'common people' on the Internet are not connecting to the Internet with GbE either. GbE is not a common Internet standard used by most people. We have 38,000 of these Pine64 boards in the wild and very few are reporting the GbE problem. Almost all of my machines connect with wifi, and most people connecting on the Internet are connecting via wifi.
I'd still be careful about making even that statement, Mark. If you mean most people with pine boards aren't using the ethernet period.... then there is a fair chance of that, depending on how many also bought the integrated wifi, and how many are using USB wifi adapters. It might be a good point to remind that (as stated on the kickstarter campaign page) that the Pine A64+ is the only one that supports GbE - the Pine64 (BASIC) only supports 10/100 Mbps ethernet. So that is another factor that could be considered. However, if you mean people with ethernet not using GbE... that is a curly one at best. Consumer grade GbE stuff has been been mainstream for several years now.
That is the argument I was making as well. Gigabit Ethernet is pretty well-established at this point. There should be "no surprises" by this time, as the spec has LONG been written, and the technology has been included in just about every desktop mainboard for I'd guess a decade or more at this point. The whole reason I bought the PINE was for the gigabit port. Otherwise, I would have been more than happy to continue along with my RaspberryPi 2.
So in other news, in my quest to get my GbE port working on this thing, I had a little excitement today, and then a lot of disappointment.
My Netgear managed Gigabit switch came two days early. So imagine my surprise when I went to configure it and the only options are Auto, Disable, 10M half, 10M full, 100M half and 100M full. So of course I upgrade the firmware hoping to see that extra 1000M half and 1000M full, and no dice. So I contact Netgear support and ask them, "where is the 1000M manual setting?"
Their answer? It's not needed. That's what Auto is for.
SMH. FML.
You've got to be kidding. So I ask, are there ANY Netgear switches that allow you to force 1000M through manual selection?
The rep goes away for a long time. Comes back with the answer, "it appears not."
This is the second time I have bought a Netgear piece of equipment in the last three or four years that had some stupid setting that I wasn't able to select. The other was a router that didn't allow me to do something or other, I forget.
So, at this point I'm wondering if I should sink another $30-40 into another switch or just see if we can get somewhere on the poll. Guess I'll try that for now. Grrrrr. Never again, Netgear. What a shame. I still have one of those old 16(?) port metal Netgear unmanaged switches humming along in the wiring closet in the basement. Sad they seem to be dumbing down and consumer-i-fying everything now.
I just wanted to say thank you, Mark, for adding the poll, and to whomever for moving all these threads into its own section on these boards. It's good to see all the issues in one place so hopefully we can all get to the bottom of this.