Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:19:51 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Cheap network for two hosts ? |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> > You have to be very careful with conectors, terminators, > >> But you can be careless with UTP connectors and hubs? > >No, but any trouble there is strictly local, and so not too disruptive and >easy to find.
That is a standard fact about UTP networks.
> If you value uptime in a larguish network, thin coax is out.
Read the subject line. Does the statement you just made have any relevance to it? Is a two host network "largish"? Sorry, coax is definitely in. We're not debating the FACTS of the advantages and disadvantages of the different networking media available, that we definitely agree on, because they are widely known and not contested. The fact is that we are talking about a VERY SMALL home network of 2 machines that must also be cheap. Cheap is relative to the size of one's wallet, however coax is still cheaper than UTP, once again when you put this messages Subject header into the equation.
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