On Jul 8, 10:11, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> At 22:00 07/07/2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> >I had a more careful look at the pile of terminal servers and hubs
> >today, and found some more "stuff".
> My first thought was "well to save it being scrapped, I'd grab it and
eBay
> it" :-) but having just checked selling prices of 10Mbps hubs ...
it'd
> barely be worth it, especially after adding in a 150 mile round trip,
and a
> day's work..
I don't want to see this stuff on Ebay. If it was going to make money,
I'd put it in the Christmas fund, or give the equipment to the local
computer recycling project. The reason there are no PCs or other
common items is that they're going to an African charity project.
> I don't need them myself, as I've already got spare 10Mbps hubs, a
terminal
> server and a couple of terminals I don't use [yet]..)
>
> Does nobody use 10Mbps any more?
It's not cool. Everyone thinks they need 100Mbps at least, or
preferably Gigabit. The fact that their PCs mostly can't keep up with
that seems to be immaterial, as is the fact that their web connection
is hardly likey to keep up with the PC. On the other hand, many of our
students in residences love it -- it's 20 times what most of them get
from broadband at home.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 13:39:28 BST