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I am tempted to say the world took a step backwards when it moved to thin coax with those BNC connectors and terminators. And the less i say about fiddling wit
by digi_owl 10y ago
I am tempted to say the world took a step backwards when it moved to thin coax with those BNC connectors and terminators.
And the less i say about fiddling with TP and modular connectors the better.
Being able to lay down a loop of coax, and then just clamp on as needed seems like heaven (though i guess having all those switches allows for much better throughput).
- protomyth 10y agoI much preferred the thin coax and BNC compared to thick. Maybe its because it was easier to educate helpers. The funny part was having a network of thin coax connected to 10baseT. Now I have fibre and gigabit, so I never really got to that one solution again.
- gamache 10y agoHeh. I tell my younger coworkers about vampire taps and they think I'm pulling their leg.
- Lio 10y agoI remember being told during CCNA training, back in 2001ish, that there were basically 2 types of network engineer. Those who had brought down an ethernet network whilst installing a vampire tap ...and those who were going to.
- scurvy 10y agoInsert joke here about network engineers scouring the floor for the lost token in a open-ended TokenRing network.