Hot Diggety! Luke S Crawford was rumored to have written: > > Now, for the reasons other people on the list have stated, I do prefer > fiber for long runs, or through electrically uncertain areas, but my > personal experience? copper usually wins in terms of reliability, for > the two above reasons.
That reliability can certainly be undone by, well, less familiar people. ;-) David Nolan was rumored to have written: > Cabling typically doesn't just fail spontaneously... Only time I've seen that happen (with great regularity, too) with Cat5 wiring is when well-meaning, very helpful, but unaware people (not being admins or network installers) didn't know about the official policy to use our officially-approved and company-purchased Ideal ratcheting crimpers. So a few folks brought in cheap $20 non-ratcheting crimpers... We were frantically wiring up a new datacenter at the time and this task was understaffed, so this was no minor endeavour. At first, there appeared to be nothing wrong with these cables. All worked as they should. But eventually, they'd fail one day, all of a sudden. One by one. We spent the next 18 months recrimping connectors after individual ones would have at least one pin slightly lose contact -- enough to cause loss of link. It was easy to tell which cables were crimped with the wrong tool after a while; if a cable lost link and you could get link back by slightly wiggling the connector... it was recrimp time. All such failures were ultimately traced back to these cheap $20 crimpers. All recrimps with the Ideal crimper has held up ever since -- for years now. Memorable. :) -Dan P.S. After that incident, we took specific steps (without bruising anyone's feelings in the process) that makes this very unlikely to ever recur in the future. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
