HP & Compaq

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Sep 7 08:00:30 2001

It would have helped if the installers (before my time)
hadn't wire-tied the cat 5 runs to the nearest 110v A/C
lines... three-foot parallel runs, in fact...

and management refuses to believe we need to re-cable..
I was even threatened by my supervisor-at-the-time and
told not to bring it up again, as it would be a 5-digit
refit cost.

-dq

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Blakeman [mailto:rhblakeman_at_kih.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: HP & Compaq
>
>
> Sounds like you need to think about using STP shielded
> cabling if you have
> that much noise on the LAN.
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of
> Douglas Quebbeman
> -> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:21 AM
> -> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> -> Subject: RE: HP & Compaq
> ->
> ->
> -> > > They BOUGHT it...BOUGHT != KILLED. Now Tulip chips have
> -> Intel logos
> -> > > on them. At least I'm pretty sure I've seen some...it may
> -> have been a
> -> > > nightmare or something. ;)
> -> >
> -> > Those el-cheapo Linksys cards that I like because the
> newer ones rarely
> -> > fail on me and when they do they are cheap to replace,
> are Tulip. And
> -> > they're faster because of it.
> ->
> -> I hope you don't mean the EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX
> cards... they are
> -> *way* too sensitive to noisy LANs... I've had to pull
> several and replace
> -> them with either Intel Pro/100 adapters, or drop back to
> some old 3Com
> -> 3c509 10Mbps combo cards... Of course, YMMV, etc...
> ->
> -> -dq
> ->
>
Received on Fri Sep 07 2001 - 08:00:30 BST