D-Link DSS-8+ manual Rear Panel

duplex (FDX) mode. Otherwise, it is blinking when collisions are occurring on the respective port.

100M Link/Activity, 10M Link/Activity (100M LINK/ACT(green),

10LINK/ACT(amber))

This indicator lights green when the port is connected to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet station, if the indicator blinking green will be transmission or received data on the 100Mbps network. Otherwise, if the indicator light amber when the port is connected to a 10Mbps Ethernet station, if the indicator blinking amber will be transmission or received data on the 10Mbps network.

Rear Panel

♦DC Power Jack: Power is supplied through an external AC power adapter. Check the technical specification section for information about the AC power input voltage. (Power Jack is on the right side of the device)

Since the DSS-8+ does not include a power switch, plugging its power adapter into a power outlet will immediately power it on.

♦MDI-X Jacks: Use these jacks to connect stations to the hub. These are MDI-X(Medium-Dependent Interface, Cross-wired) jacks, which mean, you can use ordinary straight-through twisted-pair cables to connect user machines and servers to the hub through them. If you need to connect another device with an MDI-Xjack, such as

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