Hi all :)
   um... I believe that "Cat 3" wire is rated as suffiecent for 10 MB and when I
had consultants install my network (Novell netware 3.12) a few years ago... they
tested the wiring and found it to support the 10 MB just fine...tho we did put
the Mac's on two unused pairs in the phone jacks heheheh

Art "I know someone is going to correct me! " Bahrs

>>> Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]> 07/14/97 08:16am >>>
John Alleyn-Day writes:

>I hate to burst your balloon, but this is probably a bad assumption.  I
>believe the "standard" these days for telephone installations is cat 3.
>This should be more than adequate for 56KB (I use it for my ISDN connection
>which is about 144KB), but not for a 10MB network connection.  It should be
>fairly obvious by looking at the "twists per inch" on the cable.  Also, you
>can check your error-rate over the cable and whether you are picking up any
>interference on the analog lines (I presume tne other 48 pairs are being
>used for something).

Well, you know what they say about Assuming! :-)  And at least the "me"
part is true! :-)

So, I guess I've just been lucky so far, and I should really plan on doing
that fiber link between the two buildings, eh?

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