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- From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Moving from coax to 10BaseT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182938.6414@novell.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:29:38 GMT
- References: <19971@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl>
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- In article <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl> geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot) writes:
- >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!
-
- In my building, they just give each engineer an eight port 10baseT
- fan-out unit (i guess the official term is "micro repeater"). I've
- got two in my office. Am i breaking some 10baseT rule?
-
- >10baseT is best if you have to run an office of non-technical people...
-
- Actually, i've seen no correlation between "non-technical people" and
- coax failure. If anything, the more technical the people, the more
- often they try to modify the cabling. With coax, the failure rate seems
- to be almost directly proportional to the frequency of modifications,
- and the difficulty of finding a failure increases geometrically in
- relation to the number of people that make modifications.
-
- I was really mystified a couple of years ago when they started pulling
- miles of 10baseT to replace our "perfectly good" coax, but in retrospect
- i must admit that our networks are much more stable than with the coax.
-
- don provan
- donp@novell.com
-