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- From: geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot)
- Subject: Re: Moving from coax to 10BaseT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl>
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <19971@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:51:34 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Frank@mindlink.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) writes:
-
- >In a recent column in OST James Gaskin suggests that system administrators
- >should be converting ethernets from coax to 10BaseT and *not* investing
- >anything more in coax. I put two questions to the readers of this group:
- >1) Do you concur with Mr. Gaskin that coax is dead or dying?
-
- No, most certainly not. 10baseT is point-to-point. Which means that you
- have to have a separate connection between the HUB and every apparatus
- in your office. In my case, this would mean that I'd fill more than one
- hub, just for my own equipment!
-
- Coax has the big advantage that a new tap can be easily made by adding
- another T and a piece of coax to the existing wiring.
-
- 10baseT is best if you have to run an office of non-technical people that
- move around a lot and don't know they have to jumper their ethernet tap
- if they move. Also, if they are sluggish about their cables and break
- one once a while, 10baseT can be a lifesaver. (coax would mean that you
- have to hunt for the defective tap every time, like a defect light bulb
- in a christmas tree).
-
- However, for an office of techies, often having more than one device
- on their bench, I still very much prefer coax.
-
- And then, one should not make an ethernet string too long anyway.
- No more than 5 people depend on a single string to work here. Also, those
- five are able to fill that segment quite severely so it's no use putting
- up much machines.
-
- Coax isn't 'dead'. It's just that for some applications, there are
- alternatives these days.
-
- Geert Jan
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