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Breaker78

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The university I attend did a dorm network upgrade this year.

The went from 10MB hubs to 10/100 switches.

Then they found out most of the 10 year old wiring in the buildings is CAT 3 cabling which only supports officially 10MB connections.

So, some of the connections, depending on length, quality of terminations, and even time of day were slow or even unavailable even though each side had a link light.

I would have loved to see the Network guys try and figure what the heck was going on!!

:-D
 
dumb asses.

by the way I run a 3000 node campus all on IBM TYPE-1a cabling. works great.

<edit> seriously, type 1. rated to 350 Mhz ya know and doesn't have all the problems that cat5 does.
 
Are you running Token Ring, or Ethernet with adapters?

I'll have to look around, I think I still have my IBM &quot;Structured Cabling&quot; guides around somewhere (I took the class in Boca....OH so many years ago....)

If they ever rip all that out, haul it to a recycle place....LOADS of copper there. I'm trying to remember...that's 20 or 22 ga wire, right?

Scott


 
100 Base-T

rip all that out? why, works great. I can't recommend spending $400K on new cabling, eats into my bonus don't ya know.

question for the week - How do you run Fast Ethernet over Type-1 cable?
 
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