Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!nuhub.acs.northeastern.EDU!JOHNSON
From: JOHNSON@nuhub.acs.northeastern.EDU ("I am only an egg.")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Ethernet slide connectors
Message-ID: <8806151535.AA01753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Jun 88 07:45:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 21


     Roy Smith, System Administrator for Public Health Research Institute
writes:

	"In a nutshell, they suck!"

     While I might have phrased it differently, I fully agree.  I have 
yet to get one of these silly, stupid slide style connectors to work.  I 
much prefer the other kind that are screwed in.

     We also use the idea of cable ties to secure the cables.  
Fortunately I can get away with this since all my wires are in very 
fixed places.  I had to scream at the communications people here to tie 
them up because they were constantly falling out just from fan 
vibration (and random air currents too I think).  In the earily days of
our Ethernet this was the cause of many a mysterious problem. 

     One of the things I ask vendors now is what style connector their 
hardware comes with.

Chris Johnson
Northeaster University.