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From: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Wiring Scheme
Summary: UTP Ethernet is just easier
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Date: 14 Dec 89 17:25:43 GMT
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In article <4762@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu
 (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
> I thought ethernet
>over twisted pair was mainly for buildings with exising cabling
>in the walls. Our people are doing new wiring this way even
>when they know its for ethernet.
>-- 

Many of us network managers like Ethernet over twisted pair because
the topology/architecture is much easier to manage than a bus
architecture/topology.  The technical performance on the medium is a
secondary consideration to the standardization of the medium and the
star topology.

Follow-up to comp.dcom.lans or the big-lan list at syracuse.  Lots of
discussion on these issues there.  tcp-ip doesn't care whether it's
twisted pair or baling wire.  :-)