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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 10baseT Installation costs
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.011405.19414@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 01:14:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.153750.19033@jhereg.osa.com> <1991Apr3.121521.5177@hellgate.utah.edu> <1991Apr4.152345.2962@jhereg.osa.com> <1991Apr6.011139.1572@netcom.COM> <40993@cup.portal.com>
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In article <40993@cup.portal.com> amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) writes:
>10baseT is only cheaper when the net is over 100 users big.  Savings is in
>administration costs.(adds moves and changes) and existing wire savings.

Administration costs depend heavily on circumstances.  If you've got
an abundance of unsophisticated users who will happily unplug things at
random times, bus-based technologies like thinwire are a serious mistake,
and 10baseT is just what the doctor ordered, even for a small net.
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