Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems associated with Token-Ring and Twisted Pair
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.070911.503@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <28522@bellcore.bellcore.com> <16135@netcom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 90 07:09:11 GMT

In article <16135@netcom.UUCP> jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes:
>... One of the rings runs near the
>windows facing San Francisco Bay. Every time a ship comes into port, the TR
>near the windows goes down due to ship's radar ...

If you've ever wondered why thick Ethernet coax is such garden-hose stuff,
it's precisely because it is designed to continue functioning even in the
most frightful electromagnetic conditions.  (Piddly little ships' radars
are nothing, compared to a nearby broadcast transmitter at 10MHz -- the
rumored worst-case design condition for thick Ethernet.)
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