Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why Ethernet-over-twisted-pair, anyway?
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.165655.2151@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4645@blake.acs.washington.edu> <218@bnrgate.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 89 16:56:55 GMT

In article <218@bnrgate.UUCP> kratz@bnr.ca (Geoff Kratz) writes:
>... we move people around a fair bit.  Since we have
>4-wire going to every location in every building...

It strikes me that this is the real key:  UTP's advantages are mostly
a matter of existing UTP wiring networks.  Remove those from the
equation and it's not such an obvious choice.
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