Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 06:28:00

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 te> I believe ARCnet was 2.5 Mbps, but it was token-based and I will
 te> absolutely buy that it beat early Ethernet.

Back then, the clod who managed our company's networks put all of the IT
desktops into the same segment as the servers. We'd get horrible
performance during the day, then make the servers unavailable when we
played Quake after hours.

I don't use the term "clod" lightly. He insisted on Cat 5 jacks and
premise cabling, then terminated them on 66 blocks and cross-connected
every jack using 2 pair cross-connect cable to a set up 66 blocks that
connected via AMP cable to the switch. The 66 blocks were only CAT3, the
cross-connect cables were *lucky* if they supported CAT3.



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