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Re: Networking Gear for VanLUG Members

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Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:26:07 -0800

At 06:09 PM 2/26/00 -0500, Vlad Petersen wrote:
>Shane Wegner wrote:
>.....
>> Is there a difference between 10 and 100base t cables. I am on a 100bmit
>> network but I'm only getting 800kbps between machines. Could that be the
>> cable? I didn't realize there was a difference.
>
>Big difference. Does the cable you're using have "Cat 5" or

Also, it turns out that you can fail to get 100M through a cat 5 in all sorts
of ways; if you have tight loops or tangles, or splices that aren't done
just so; the tolerances are a lot tighter. -Tim 

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