Half Gigabit NIC (?)

I had a Del laptop today that connected to a Gigabit LAN at 500Mbs via its docking station.
Without the docking station it connected at 1 gig.
Is this expected behaviour?

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Graham.

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date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:44:31 -0000 author: Graham.

Re: Half Gigabit NIC (?)

On 03/11/09 20:44, Graham. wrote:

> I had a Del laptop today that connected to a Gigabit LAN at 500Mbs via its docking station.
> Without the docking station it connected at 1 gig.
> Is this expected behaviour?

Odd, there's no such speed for a gigabit port, though some docking 
stations are now USB2 rather than PCI based, perhaps it's reporting the 
480Mbps of the USB connection that the Ethernet is passing through?

date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:04:25 +0000 author: Andy Burns