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Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> 
> 
> My guess is that everybody is remembering the old days when a single 10
> Mbps segment was enough for a 1000-employee company, with low-power
> machines barely using any Ethernet bandwidth.  In those days it was
> definitely possible to have a single Thinnet cable (joined with many
> T-connectors, of course) winding its way through the whole company, and
> perhaps people are remembering how hard it was to isolate pieces of that
> long cable.
> 
	As long as the company was 
	
	1/ small...10Base2 segment length limited to 185m max
	2/ had 30 connected machines or less ...max nodes per segment 30
	
	of course with repeaters and bridging you could build a *big* Ethernet ;-)

	10Base5 (Thick Ethernet): 500m segment, 100 nodes/segment 

	BTW, TimeDomainReflectometry used to work relatively well to locate
	breaks (or unterminated connectors) in the cable.

	Remember those days well...
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