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From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Avoiding the bandwagon
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.082529.20689@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 08:25:29 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
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   Has anybody chosen to install an Arcnet lan instead of an Ethernet
one for a new system (contemporary choices, not in the distant past) ?

   What were your reasons/justifications, especially besides price,
since Ethernet is a dejure standard and Arcnet only defacto.

   I am trying to decide which way to go for a small business, at most
8 workstations including database server on a Lantastic system. No near
term prospect of growth in count or distance. From what I've read it
just seems to me that Arcnet is more stable and less sensitive to
problems of installation and operation and a more mature option,
especially for twisted-pair installations on phone line/star config.
(I'm a little scared by the newness of 10baseT). I need to convince
myself and a client that this is appropriate, however, especially
since it seems to go against the herd.