28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
8:28 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, William Donzelli wrote:
Sounds like you may have mismatched cable segments, cables bent at angles
exceeding the spec, possibly non-standard cabling, etc. Still, removing
the coax is a good move. Your life will be made much, much easier.
I agree! I've never had a hub fail. On the other hand I've had coax
cables fail spontaneously (maybe because I didn't go thru the trouble of
soldering them :) However, I see Tony's point about 20 years from now
trying to replace a failed ASIC in a hub. By that time though, good luck
finding RG-58 coax either.
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Anyway, with
10 base T, there may be a dozen cable coming out from the
room where the bub is to other machines in the house. With 10 base 2,
there's normally only one coax cable.
Comprimise! The hamfests these days seem to be littered with Cabletron
10base2 hubs (miniMMACs). Anyway, at work we have been ripping out all of
the 10base2 and replacing it with 10baseT. We have had too many problems
with the coax - problems causing whole segments to go away, and other
nasty things. Anyway, a great deal of the old stuff is going home with me. I think I may now have the greatest collection of
10base2 transcievers
ever assembled (kind of like that guy that collects floppy jackets).
Cool, get pictures of all of them and start a web site!
Anyway, the
hubs can fail.
Not as much as 10base2 old cabling!