[vcf-midatlantic] SX GBIC fiber cable speed
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Mon Feb 15 22:37:44 UTC 2021
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> On 2/15/21 2:38 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> I used to work at a place that used 10baseFL. It was a big waste of money.
>> Every computer that came in had an Intel 100mbps nic, it got yanked and
>> replaced with a $400 10 megabit fiber card. But when lightning struck near
>> one of the buildings, it blew out like $100K worth of Lucent Definity
>> phone boards and every HP cat5 jetdirect board.
>
> I think the "FL" in 10baseFL stands for "FLorida". Lightning capital of
> the world and all. I lost about half a dozen copper ports down there before
> I developed a rule for my network: If it leaves the room, it's on fiber.
When I was working in MD, we had a customer with a long RS-232 run between
buildings. I was there several times to replace the 1488 and 1489 chips in the
remote printer. They never did do anything about it.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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