Yesterday, John Abreau gleaned this insight:
> Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > You can go in two directions. Either 10Base2, or 10BaseT (or 100BaseTX,
> > gigabit, but let's be realistic now).
>
> The extra cost of 100baseTX isn't really *that* much, and I'd assert that
> it's well worth it for any but the most trivial networks. I find on my
> home network that I often have to transfer huge files that take several
> minutes between two 100bT machines, and almost an hour to go to/from a
> 10bT machine. It's particularly bad when I'm doing video work, or moving
> cdrom images.
I think he was talking about gigabit, which is still quite expensive,
unfortunately... :)
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