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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 10Base-T hubs
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.183625.27228@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 18:36:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.171237.19978@shl.com> <1582@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1991Apr10.132856.8077@keinstr.uucp> <1991Apr10.172643.26334@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr10.172643.26334@leland.Stanford.EDU> morgan@Panther.Stanford.EDU (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:
>Hmm, I don't remember the price of the AMP system exactly, but as I
>recall it was on the order of $50/outlet for the fancy connectors and
>patch cables...

We looked at it, briefly, and decided it was unattractive.  Too expensive,
and of course the length of the patch cable counts double against your
thinwire length limit (a non-trivial concern here because we've got a big
building with networking enthusiasts thinly scattered).

It's a cheap (in both senses of the word) imitation of having a thickwire
cable with transceivers clamped on and transceiver cables running out to
customers.  I increasingly think that thinwire makes sense for wiring
a densely-populated room or a minimal configuration, but not for large-scale
building networks.  You want either thick coax with transceivers or UTP.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry