Free stuff (UK) again

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Jul 11 05:25:45 2004

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:

> A 10Mb/sec hub is great if you just want to network a few older machines
> together and don't have allot of concurrent users. I still have one 3com hub
> in a box on the shelf here somewhere. I switched to 10/100 because moving
> ISO images was too slow, and once you started the network became very laggy
> and slow (shared 10Mb/sec). Once you have more then one user , wanted
> bi-directional ability, and have machines with HD's that can more then
> saturate a 10mbs hub a 100Mb/sec switch is worth the effort of running cat5
> wire. Unless your moving lots of mpegs around the network Gigabit ethernet
> is a bit overkill these days.

My house has been wired with Cat5 since 1996 (when I moved in). And I
wired the house I rented before that with Cat5 as far back as 1995 (plus
Cat3 for the PBX ;)

However, mostly out of laziness and not much luck traditionally in getting
100Mbps hardware for free, I run 10Mbps. I lately added a WAP and will be
inserting a 100Mbps hub/router I acquired once I get some time :)

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