From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 18:14:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA03984 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03971 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA24747; Wed, 8 May 1996 10:44:54 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605080114.KAA24747@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Home networks (or 10Base-T ways to annoy your spouse) To: blh@nol.net (Brett L. Hawn) Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:44:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brett L. Hawn" at May 7, 96 04:17:43 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brett L. Hawn stands accused of saying: > > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > For "home networks", 10BT is easier to wire. Right now, I'm using > > 10B2, and I'm thinking about switching to 10BT, as routing coax from > > room to room is a real pain (e.g., you need two jacks per room, and > > there's more wire to route). > > You'll also find that its more centralized with the 10bT since everything > goes to a single hub and you don't have coax looping all over the place. ... 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. > > It is cheap, though. > > The cost of reliable cat5 is so low as to be almost no different than the > cost of good 50/75ohm coax so I just can't see that as an argument anymore > :) Hmm. That's still kinda arguable, depending on whether you like to cut your own cables, or buy them premade. > Brett -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[