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In article <1993Jan25.095134.25886@ica.philips.nl> geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot) writes:
>No, most certainly not. 10baseT is point-to-point. Which means that you
>have to have a separate connection between the HUB and every apparatus
>in your office. In my case, this would mean that I'd fill more than one
>hub, just for my own equipment!

In my building, they just give each engineer an eight port 10baseT
fan-out unit (i guess the official term is "micro repeater").  I've
got two in my office.  Am i breaking some 10baseT rule?

>10baseT is best if you have to run an office of non-technical people...

Actually, i've seen no correlation between "non-technical people" and
coax failure.  If anything, the more technical the people, the more
often they try to modify the cabling.  With coax, the failure rate seems
to be almost directly proportional to the frequency of modifications,
and the difficulty of finding a failure increases geometrically in
relation to the number of people that make modifications.

I was really mystified a couple of years ago when they started pulling
miles of 10baseT to replace our "perfectly good" coax, but in retrospect
i must admit that our networks are much more stable than with the coax.

						don provan
						donp@novell.com