Hello Neil!
On Tue 27 Jan 1998 at 07:50 you wrote the following to Will Hargrave:
 GD>>> Going to 10baseT from coax-based Ethernet will increase
 GD>>> reliability.
 WH>> Eh? 10Base2 is generally /less/ reliable than 10BaseT - if one
 WH>> node
 NC> That's what the man said Will.
Shoot me. I can't read :)
 WH>> Arcnet is very robust. It's not inherently unreliable.
 NC> It's still  generally a co-ax.
Yes, but any old coax will work over short distances....
 WH>> Although it's 2.5mbits, increasing the speed to 10mbits ethernet
 WH>> won't give a 4x speed increase, because of the greater efficiency
 WH>> of the modified token ring protocol Arcnet uses.
 NC> Do what I'm doing. Go to 16meg Token ring. =o)
Apparently Arcnet was available in 100mbits???
 NC> Anyone care to work out the theoretical and practical improvements in
 NC> performance of 16meg Token Ring over 10base2 Ethernet?
Depends a lot on usage, I would think.
 Will                                        
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