On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
..
> Our cafe has just gone through a major system upgrade, so now we have 16
> stations with respectable configurations, but now we're having slight
> problems with networking. We also updated all our NIC's to 10/100 Fast
> Ethernet, and got a new switch to match, but now, around five of the 16
> machines are dropping packets. Flood pinging them shows that the worst
> one drops as much as 30% of the packets I send, with the rest averaging
..
To run at 100Mbps trouble-free, you need PRE-CRIMPED cat5 cables. Yung
gawa-gawa lang will NOT cut it. We had this problem here in Moscom for a
long time. And that's just about the only solution. Go out and buy those
cables.
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