Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:00:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home networks (or 10Base-T ways to annoy your spouse) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507225756.9710A-100000@dazed.nol.net> In-Reply-To: <199605080233.MAA25515@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > ... you just have a million pieces of blue cable wandering back to > > > the hub. This is a pain if you have several machines scattered around. > > > > uhh.. when did you stop by my place? did my roomie invite you? :) > > Heh. No; I've seen what happens when people use an innapropriate cabling > type for religious reasons 8) Actually I used it simply because I had the cable already there and the resources for it on hand. Given the choice though I'd still use it simply because I find 10b2 unreliable and likely to hose off at any moment, let alone have several kittens in the house who would no doubt find a T connector to be a wonderful toy. > > It's amusing reading people preach one over the other; UTP is great for > fixed installations, coax is king when you need to be dynamic. I won't disagree with that though I think a well designed layout in the first place allows for far greater dynammic installtions/deinstallations in the long run. > > Thickwire, otoh, is only good for scourging Windows users with... I dunno.. it did a damn find job of holding my boxes together while I moved after I ran out of tape. Brett
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