-------- In message <[email protected]>, Hal Murray writes: > >[email protected] said: >> The main reason Ethernet went balanced was actually for fault isolation >> (star-topology vs. bus) and signal quality (IT people were horrible at >> "sharking" and crimping coax.) > >The reason Ethernet switched to a star topology was to take advantage of the >wires that were already installed in most buildings.
That came later. The first twisted-pair stuff only allowed 30m of wire and was meant for connecting workstations in an office to a hub, so that only the hub had to attach to the "backbone" coax. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
