From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 17 16:17:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E25214F7F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA62537; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:16:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <045e01bed0aa$6a4cfa40$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: "Vincent Poy" Cc: References: Subject: Sv: poor ethernet performance? Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:14:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent Poy To: Karl Pielorz Cc: ; ; Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 12:22 AM Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? > > There again, any network installer worth their salt will test the cable when > > in-situ, after the 'dust' has settled... > > Testing after the dust has settled and while it is in use is > different since conditions do change. The testers only tests for > continuity, not the impedance or any other electrical properties of the > cable. > Depends on the tester. Our electrician had a $1500 tester, which gave a printout of several electrical properties of each installed cable; this was included in the documentation of the network, which also included nice cad-drawings of the location of every outlet. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message