🚀 go-pugleaf

Bob O`Brien wrote:
 
> My own LAN is mixed 10bT and 10b2, but only because I'm too lazy to
> buy another hub to replace a working segment.  But if anything goes
> wrong with the thinwire part, it's history.

I think this is getting closer to the correct way to evaluate this.
Incremental investments to keep a older network functional is quite a
bit different than starting from (near) scratch and building an
antiquated network.  Personally I think 10B2 is antiquated and not worth
the effort/expense to setup from scratch.

Then there's the otherside of the coin, I have a 5-port fiber switch
(half duplex ... sigh) and I keep thinking about stringing fiber around
the house.  BUT, at ~$220/NIC it's >100% beyond my finacial pain 
threshold ... now if it were full duplex ... hmmmm??

If I recall correctly, the original poster was talking about stringing
"new wire" and was looking for ideas about how to run it outside and 
then back inside and asked about plenum spaces.  In this situation
where "new wire" is the option I recommend 4-pair Cat-5 (in conduit if
feasible, after all, next year fiber *might* make sense?).

Paul
-- 
ISDN is almost like actually being connected to the net.
Wonder what xDSL will be like?