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 :-)
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Ken Vickers
LINKWAY Development and Support
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-----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).