I just bought 4 new Dell rack mounted servers that have gb nics in them. The 4 servers will be chatting a lot amongst themselves due to some propriatary software we use in our business. If the servers have cat 5e cable between them through a 100mb switch will they still communicate at gb speed since both nic see a 1000 mb nic at the other end?? And if not why? Does the signal get degraded ( i only have 8 ft between the servers) and there is too much error correction and packet loss? It does seem like the 2 nics would try at 1 gb speed.
Any speed jocks out there??
