From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 19:32:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA12080 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 19:32:13 -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 TAA12030 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 19:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA25515; Wed, 8 May 1996 12:03:28 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605080233.MAA25515@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 12:03:27 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brett L. Hawn" at May 7, 96 09:21:30 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: > > > ... 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. > > uhh.. when did you stop by my place? did my roomie invite you? :) Heh. No; I've seen what happens when people use an innapropriate cabling type for religious reasons 8) It's amusing reading people preach one over the other; UTP is great for fixed installations, coax is king when you need to be dynamic. Thickwire, otoh, is only good for scourging Windows users with... > 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 [[