On Monday 21 March 2005 10:22, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > >> They'll be lots of problems. Personally I wired up a 10Base-T network over > > >> phone-like cat-3 a _years_ ago, but it only barely worked (only worked on > > >> some cards, with packet loss). There wasn't a phone line there to interfere, > > Errr, isn't cat-3 what 10Base-T is supposed to run on? Sure the cards > weren't trying to do 100mbit over it? Or maybe the distance was just too > long? I'm pretty sure that's why it _did_ work with old cards. It has one big splice (where a phone terminal was supposed to be) and maybe a foot of non-twist, but the jackwork is good. It barely passed when a tester was put on it. Had there not been a 90-degree turn in the system (put in in 1974), I would have pulled cat5e through it. I went with wireless, which was much better. At work we have some split jacks - but we're trying to phase those out as quickly as possible. -- -dave Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota http://www.math.umn.edu PGP/GPG Fingerprint: C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 (visit http://www.gnupg.org for more information) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050321/5819db0c/attachment.pgp