Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:46:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961114162948.15407K-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net> In-Reply-To: <199611141632.LAA25539@etinc.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, dennis wrote: > J. Dixon..making stuff up > > >> > Other problems: the logic for each port is on a small daughterboard. > >> > This is held in only by friction. Is the daughterboard held in by something other than friction? > >> > There is a device below one of the > >> > daughterboards -- the one for port 0, unfortunately -- that is too > >> > high (because it is socketed), so you can't get the daughterboard all > >> > the way in without causing it to bow. Does the daughterboard not bend if you push it all the way in? > >> > Then over time it gradually works > >> > its way out. > > You are so full of sh*t I can smell it over the net. Where do you have > your router, in a dump truck? We sold thousand of cards with the > old daughtercard and never did one ever "work its way loose", for > christ's sake...there was never a problem....we changed it because > some people didn't like the way it looked.....it was NEVER a problem If you push the daughterboard home the PCB is bowed. If you let it sit in a working router for any period of time the card gradually straightens itself out. At that point the pins are just into their sockets. This is just bad design. Our routers are rack mounted. The only vibration is caused by fans. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
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