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c.c.eiftj@08.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>What sort of reliability problems have people observed with properly
>installed thinnet?  I'm guessing that most problems are caused by using
>out-of-spec parts.

At my previous job (about four years ago) I became responsible for the network
after the last competent Sys Admin quit.  Even though I had segmented the
five+ year old thinnet network into lots of short, manageable segments,
having a piece of it go down was a weekly occurance.  Most of the problems
were due to old T-connectors that had become loose.  By just pushing on a
T where it connected to a transceiver you could make the whole segment
go down.  I wasted a lot of time figuring this out.  I did a lot of
binary searches locating bad connectors.

When you figure a half-dozen $100K+/year engineers aren't getting anything
done when the network is down, it was pretty easy to convince the Exec VP
of the company to pop for $6k to pull four-six runs of Cat-5 to each office,
plus install, hubs, and new transceivers when we moved into new office space.

With Cat 5 twisted pair you can easily migrate to 100BASE-T, full-duplex,
switched Ethernet, FDDI over copper, 155Mbps ATM, etc.

-Jonathan		jhue@geocities.com