Ken,

No way. Unless you are using a switching hub which will buffer packets
to handle speed transitions (e.g. 100BT to 10BT) then there is no packet
caching or buffering. A switching hub will buffer the packet long enough
to determine the destination mac address for routing purposes. Besides,
caching in a hub would not increase the speed. This is not like disk
caching which reads ahead in anticipated of more reads.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Vickers [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 10:35 AM
> To:   John Zoltak; [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re:      Re: ThinLan to AUI Changeover
>
> John,
>
> My perception is 10BaseT is quicker, my guess is that each of the hubs
> must
> do some minor caching thus reducing the collision rate.
>
> But I do say perception and guess :-)
> ______________________________________________
> Ken Vickers
> LINKWAY Development and Support
> ______________________________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> John after Joe.
>
>
> >Joe,
> >Maybe it's just you. Maybe it was the cables. Ten-Base is Ten-Base
> >whether it's T, 2, or F it all has the same speed and collision
> >detection. 10BT is easier to wire up. I've seen 10B2 cables as the
> cause
> >of some problems. Sometimes bad terminators and sometimes a bad crimp
> >job on the connectors. I've switched mostly to 10BT because it's
> easier
> >to wire than the coax. But I have not seen any speed difference
> between
> >the two. Also because I've switched to switches, they all have 10BT
> >connectors. Besides, I can move up to 100BaseT or 100VG using the
> same
> >cables (CAT5).
>