On Nov 19, 22:18, Tarsi wrote:
> >Yes, 185 metres instead of 100m -- and 10base5 will go to 500m. But you
> >can do better and faster with fibre.
>
> Well, wouldn't we ALL like fiber, but I just don't think it's in my
budget. :)
Not really in mine either, but I have a few bits of cast off FOIRL and long
patch leads that were discarded (wrong connectors for the more modern kit).
Anyway, since most of my machines are within 50m of each other, and few can
manage 100MB let alone more, there's little point in buying fibre for my
home systems :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 03:09:21 GMT