100BASE-T instead of 10BASE-T on SPEBlox Long

BotBlox Hardware
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I want to connect a SPEBlox Long to a 100BASE-T port.

Is it possible to have 100BASE-T instead of 10BASE-T on the SPEBlox Long ethernet port (DP38322)? Either by boot-strapping or software?

Alternatively, could a SwitchBlox serve as a converter?

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SPEBlox Long needs the ethernet side to operate at 10BASE-T. It won’t work at 100BASE-T.

SPEBlox Long is designed to only advertise the ability to operate at 10BASE-T. Therefore if you connect a 10/100BASE-T ethernet port, or even a 10/100/1000BASE-T port to SPEBlox Long, it will autonegotiate down to 10BASE-T.

Is your 100BASE-T port only able to support 100BASE-T? That seems pretty uncommon, nearly all 100BASE-T ethernet ports also support 10BASE-T as well.

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Unfortunately 10BASE-T is not presently available on the ethernet side of that product (only 100BASE-T or 1000BASE-T). It’s an embedded FPGA system with an FSP, so there are some technical limitations to what we can do.

Could we not use any Gigablox or Switchblox between the embedded system and the Botblox Long?

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Switchblox nano seems like the perfect fit. It has 3 ports and each should handle 10/100 Mbps.

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Great, I will try that, thanks for input folks.

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That’s a great suggestion.