[WinMac] upgrading from coax to fast ethernet peer-to-peer lan

tom lyczko(tom[at]mail.visualwave.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:15:42 -0500

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list" <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
> Re: [WinMac] upgrading from coax to fast ethernet peer-to-peer lan
> by "Bruce Johnson" <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
>

This is not the simplest of projects, especially if you have to run a lot of
new cable, you might need new conduit (most fire codes don't like, for
instance, running cat5 wire through plenum spaces without conduit, and if the
conduit originally was small, you might not be able to fit the number of
twisted pair cables you need into it)

there's 2-3 coax cables in each jack, so 1-2 cat 5 cables will fit...

regarding the re-emplacement of cat 5 wire where coax is now:

If you're inexperienced at this I'd
_definitely_ consider hiring an electrician with data line exerience to do the
work, or at least serve as a consultant.

any information you can offer toward helping to present this argument would help, since the people here know FAR less than i do on this topic, and i'm learning daily and i'm the most knowledgeable at the moment on this topic...!!!

One thing to watch out for. I don't know about the little 10/100 hubs; but our
switches and hubs had to be set to do 10bt or 100bt on each port not
autoswitch...most NIC's today are 10/100, and you can lose the connection as
both the NIC and the Hub get into an Alfonse and Gaston situation. "I'll
switch to 100bt, Oh, you wanted 10 bt, no, after you...no after _you_"

so is it better to buy a 100-bt hub and upgrade all the NIC's to 100-bt?? we have old *motorola* macs from the mac clone era...the people here aren't giving me much indication about budget, etc.

meanwhile, thank you for the suggestions!!!

:) tom
tlyczko@servtech.com

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