Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: Half duplex Ethernet slows down when there are collisions, but there is no wait to transmit whenever the link is idle. With FDDI, there is (you wait for the token). So at high load, half duplex Ethernet might be a little slower than FDDI, but at modest load, it will definitely be faster (lower latency). But, doesn't the GIGAswitch get around that by generating a token for each port? Isn't that how switched-FDDI works? Peace... Sridhar