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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: Moving from coax to 10BaseT
- Message-ID: <4!w1H3?74c@atlantis.psu.edu>
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- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
- References: <19971@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:52:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl> geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot) writes:
- >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!
-
- You aren't limited to single-star topolgies. Buy small
- (10-12 port) hubs and chain them together with AUI cables. If you're
- starting from scratch, 10BaseT is the way to go, IMHO.
-
- --Dave
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- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but still runs DOS?
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