On 10/02/2014 08:35, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
Andy Dingley wrote:

On Sunday, 9 February 2014 23:04:44 UTC, Tim Streater wrote:
Unreliable it is if you've ever had to make a tap on thick ethernet -
or had smart-alec physicists think they can just add 50m of their own
2mm thick 50 ohm coax on the end of a segment of thin ethernet.

Are all the terminators on?

Yes.

Have you looked?

walks off

Yes. All three ends have terminators on. I told you our network was
OK, it
_must_ be your software's fault!

(It was a T shaped building. It made a sort of sense.)

Not only did the physicists in question add a length of their own
thin-thin-thin ethernet, they also, as you hint, added T-sections
elsewhere so that instead of the thinnet going to the back of their
Sun, and being connected with the shortest possible T (just the
connector), they had a 15ft or so long T. It made the cabling much
neater :-)

Kind of like when (some) electricians do TV systems...


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Cheers,

John.

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