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Introduction 1
KNExTX/WG User’s Guide - Rev. A00 Kingston Technology Company
Introduction
Intended Audience: This manual assumes that the user has a general working
knowledge of networking principles and architecture and is familiar with
network systems in general.
Congratulations on the purchase of your Kingston EtheRx WorkGroup ( WG)
series 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet hubs. There are two models available in this
series: KNE4TX/WG, which is the 4-Port model, and KNE8TX/WG, which is
the 8-Port model. The EtheRx Workgroup series hubs are Class
II repeaters
that conform to IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX standards. Please refer to
Appendix D for further information on Class
II
repeaters.
The EtheRx Workgroup hubs support up to four (4) or eight (8) UTP
(Unshielded Twisted-Pair) ports for 100BASE-TX network connections. Both
models include a cascade switch on the last UTP port (Port 4 or Port 8) which
supports both straight-through and crossover cable types. The UTP ports use
dual-color LEDs to show
three states of operation: link, activity and
partition/error. The EtheRx hubs also include a collision LED for collision
detection and five (5) utilization LEDs to display the level of network traffic in
percentages of the total available bandwidth.
For the remainder of this manual, the KNE4TX/WG (4-port model) and the
KNE8TX/WG (8-port model) hubs will be referred to as the EtheRx hubs.
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KNE4TX/WG 4-Port 100BASE-TX Hub
•
KNE8TX/WG 8-Port 100BASE-TX Hub
Model Types
Fig. 1-1 – KNE4TX/WG & KNE8TX/WG
LINK / ACTIVITY / PARTITION
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
EtheRx Workgroup
C O L L
I 0 0 B A S E - T X C l a s s Repeater
CASCADE
PWR
KNE8TX/WG
UTIL %
1 60 50 25 12
LINK / ACTIVITY / PARTITION
EtheRx Workgroup
C O L L
I 0 0 B A S E - T X C l a s s Repeater
CASCADE
PWR
KNE4TX/WG
UTIL %
1 60 50 25 12
1 2 3 4