Hello Gerry!
On Fri 23 Jan 1998 at 17:57 you wrote the following to Pat Glenn:
 PG>> present we are on a peer to peer system, using ethernet with
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 GD> What are you currently running, Pat?  Arcnet, coax Ethernet?
 GD> Going to 10baseT from coax-based Ethernet will increase reliability.
Eh? 10Base2 is generally /less/ reliable than 10BaseT - if one node goes 
down, T-piece comes disconnected, terminator goes dud, the whole thinnet 
segment goes down.
10BaseT doesn't have that.
 GD> Going from arcnet will give you increased reliability AND increased
 GD> speed.
Arcnet is very robust. It's not inherently unreliable.
Although it's 2.5mbits, increasing the speed to 10mbits ethernet won't give a 
4x speed increase, because of the greater efficiency of the modified token 
ring protocol Arcnet uses.
 Will                                        
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