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From: tjs@MSC.EDU (Tim Salo)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  An informal survey [slide-locks]
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Date: 19 Apr 1991 15:03:33 GMT
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> Hi.  A recent discussion of the comparative merits of slide latches versus
> screw/thumbscrew as a means of attaching a cable to a system port ...

Screw connectors have never brought down our network.  Slide-lock connectors, 
on the other hand, have fallen off, (with or without help), and brought
down parts of our network.  (I once believed, without evidence, that slide-
lock connectors were the largest single source of [LAN] network downtime.)

Does anyone have experience replacing Ethernet slide-lock connectors
with screw connectors?  (Is there a reasonably easy way to do this?)

Tim Salo
Minnesota Supercomputer Center
(612) 626-3047
tjs@msc.edu