Neil Croft wrote to William Hargrave in lan:
 WH> But does it matter? The only loss is a loss of bandwidth - the data at
 WH> an application level will still be handled okay, won't it?
NC> It depends. At work there's one office which is just a little bit
NC> too far away from the rest of the world. (120m instead of 90m) With
NC> 4meg T/R there was never a problem but due to a number of factors,
NC> (Bad wiring, long wiring, etc.) under ethernet, on a busy day, the
NC> user suffers a lot of timeouts and poor response times.
Well, of course what you do in that case is to extend your FDDI backbone to 
the
other office 
NC> All will be fixed soon when we get our re-wire.
Lucky you!
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   William Hargrave                2:254/211.20
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