Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:05:31 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "David Johnson" <david@usermode.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Network throughput Message-ID: <002901c117f4$7955a6c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01072822531000.31045@weathertop.home>
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It's easy - and these days Home Depot carries a whole selection of stuff. It's kind of funny to go in there and see boxes of CAT-5, crimp tools, RJ45 jacks and plugs and such the next row over from the bags of steer shit and fish head fertilizer in the Lawn and Garden section. :-) I know there's an anthropological lesson somewhere in there! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: David Johnson [mailto:david@usermode.org] >Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:53 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Network throughput > > >On Saturday 28 July 2001 10:18 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Anyway, what I hope that you draw from all this is that DSL is not a >> rock-solid circuit delivery mechanism and that the last 30 feet of wire >> inside the house can kill the circuit as surely as a bridge tap or load >> coil in the Telco section of the circuit. > >Thanks for the laughs! > >>From my location and proximity to the telco, I should be getting double the >DSL speeds I currently receive. But I never complain. I may be dense >on a lot >of topics, but when my phone lines are thirty years old, run 200 feet from >the MPOE to my apartment wall, and then twenty feet from an ancient 4-prong >jack to a modern jack, and then another ten feet to my computer, I >figure I'm >getting awesome speeds! > >If I wasn't so lazy and knew what I was doing, I'd replace that old 4-prong >and eliminate ten feet of line. > >-- >David Johnson >___________________ >http://www.usermode.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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