Ethernet cable (Was: Sun3 valuations?)

Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Tue Jan 23 10:48:17 CST 2018


On 01/23/2018 09:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> If you didn't locate the transceivers on those black marks you would 
> have had terrible performance as that affects collisions.  Timing (among 
> other things like grounding) was very important with that version of 
> ethernet hardware.

It's my understanding that the marks (black bands or other markings on 
the sheath) were exactly one wavelength apart.  Which from what I 
remember ~> understand from my ham radio days is quite important.



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Grant. . . .
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