This says it does 10 meg...
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:37 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have this Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station. We've had it for at
> least 12 or 14 years. For quite some time, we had it in our utility room
> where it was out of the way. Because the utility room was kind of
> central to the main part of the house, we also had our WiFi AP located
> in that room, and they both ran off a small (Netgear) 5-port switch,
> which relayed to our router at the far end of the house. Never had a
> problem with it.
>
> We recently started refreshing the utility room. Nothing drastic, just
> fresh floor, paint, and trim. In the process we moved the WAP to a place
> we call "the alcove", which is still fairly centrally located, but has
> better clearance to the outside/deck area. So we moved the switch there
> and put our VoIP phones on the switch with the WAP.
>
> So the weather station is now on a dedicated ethernet connection back to
> the router. Suddenly the weather station "stalls out" after a bunch of
> "excessive collision/speed mismatch" errors. Sometimes it runs for 4 or
> 5 hours, sometimes it runs a day or two, but always gets to the stalling
> out phase after a bunch of ethernet errors.
>
> So I started looking into the ethernet interface on the weather station.
> Turns out, it's an obsolete data logger contraption that Davis no longer
> makes, and it runs 10Base-T half duplex. Erg. I got into the router and
> set the port that it's on to 10/half dux, and it actually seems to run
> longer this way, but still gets to the too many errors condition after a
> while.
>
> I think I've come to the conclusion that the funky little data logger
> goober on the weather station is just not very robust. I think if I put
> another switch or ethernet repeater co-located with the weather station,
> I can get it back to the state of mostly working (or at least with a
> stall rate that is measured in months/years instead of hours/days).
>
> So what I'm looking for is the smallest/tiniest ethernet switch (or
> maybe just a repeater) that can be installed on the wall next to the
> weather station console as possible. This may be difficult, as the
> Netgear fast switch we had there is only 4x4 inches. Just wondering if
> there was something even smaller?
>
> The other option is (maybe) a Raspberry Pi that has two ethernet ports
> on it? We run the weather station with a Raspberry Pi 3 that is located
> elsewhere on the LAN, but it only has 1 ethernet port. If there was one
> with two, I could just plop the pi next to the weather station.
>
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