Re: Networking/LAN woes!!

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00

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In article <IYr8N1twjjUxb=CER2ChzdOp0Wih@news.arrakeen.arrakis.nu>,
robbie irvine <robbie@arrakis.nu> writes

[full duplex on a 10mbps hub - collision city]

>I've got 4 machines connected to a netgear 10/100 hub at home 
>two of the machines have 3com 3c905tx cards and the other two have the
>Netgear 10/100 (tx104?)cards. They are all set for duplex operation
>and I get no collision lights on the hub. If I connect a laptop with a
>3c589D (10baseT) the collision detection lights up like blackpool...

I reckon that is because most machines don't come close to saturating
100mbps.  A 10mbps LAN will be running at 98% when only 2 modern
computers are transferring stuff but 100mbps is still faster than most
hard disks, never mind the effort of getting it from disk to LAN.

TB       Busby the cat 1984 - 22.9.1999  :(

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From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Networking/LAN woes!!
Date: 1999/10/07
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