27 Oct
1999
27 Oct
'99
12:47 p.m.
Rumor has it that Clint Wolff (VAX collector) may have mentioned these words:
If I ever build a house, I'll probably run 100baset
(cat 7?) wiring,
or fiber to each room from a central "mechanical" room.
Cat3 handles up to 10Mbit, Cat5 handles up to 100Mbit, "Enhanced Cat5" goes
up to 350Mbit, and Gigabit actually uses Enhanced Cat5, as it uses all four
pairs of wires - 250Mbit per pair.
I plan on building next year, I'm wiring all rooms (heck, maybe even the
bathrooms... ;-) with Cat5 for 100Mbit, but I also want an ArcNet bridge to
the garage, barn & chickencoop if I get it built next year... 2.5Mbit over
a kilometer really isn't that bad! ;-)
Cheers,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.