From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 15:26:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16243 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nol.net (root@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA16238 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dazed.nol.net (blh@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by nol.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21176; Tue, 7 May 1996 17:13:26 -0500 (CDT) X-AUTH: NOLNET SENDMAIL AUTH Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:13:23 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" To: Darryl Okahata cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home networks (or 10Base-T ways to annoy your spouse) In-Reply-To: <199605072143.AA299235409@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 May 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks for saying what I attempted to say. ;-) hehe.. coming from a wannabe ISP (not my current one) that tried to have no less than 8 segments with 100+ systems on each going through 10b2 I can honestly say.. I hate the stuff. After 3 months there I finally got them to go to 10bT and the change was immediatly apparent when it came to centralizing the segments in one spot, we had something like 30 spare ethercards. > It's cheaper because you don't have to buy a hub with 10B2 -- I > wasn't thinking about the cabling costs. However, snaking coax hither > and yon is enough of a pain that 10BT is looking real good, even with > the added expense (I'd probably get an 8-port hub and not a cheap 5-port > one, just for future expansion ;-). Actually a good kingston 8port goes for ohhh.. 150 retail and when you consider the cost of the T connectors, the twistons, the replacements, the tols needed for cutting and stripping the coax, etc.. > However, with 10BT, you do have to plan out how many PC's will go > into a room, as it's a pain to (for example) add a second PC to a room > if you only have one 10BT cable coming out of the wall .... It's much > simpler with coax. I will agree to that, however I learned a long time ago to always run at least twice the amount of leads you THINK you'll need :) Brett