Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Cheap network for two hosts ? | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:41:06 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990110032934.23377E-100000@red.prv>, "Mike A. Harris" writes: +----- | On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Horst von Brand wrote: | > You have to be very careful with conectors, terminators, | | But you can be careless with UTP connectors and hubs? +--->8
More careless --- UTP is more forgiving than 10Base2; if you leave a cable dangling unconnected (or accidentally snap the cable) a UTP LAN will still work aside from the machine(s) disconnected by the cable break, whereas 10Base2 will probably give you many errors and kill throughput on the entire LAN.
It's considered bad form for a cable break on one side of the building to screw up a file transfer between two machines next to each other on the other side of the building... bot with 10Base2 this can happen.
And Cat.5 is more flexible; I can run a cable under the floor a lot more easily and with less risk of damaging the cable (see previous paragraph). Putting a kink in coax can put a pretty serious kink in your network even if the cable isn't broken!
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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