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How many people does it require to support those pc's ? IBM picked ethernet because it is cheap. Don't confuse popular with reliable. rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
We got tired of the twinax hassle. Twinax cabling, and it's balun alternative, seemed to involve a lot of boosters, etc to get the signal to stay up. Some locations would still have a lot of issues. We don't seem to have that problem with Ethernet. I don't know if there is better fault recovery in the protocol, or if we just did it right when we cabled for Ethernet. Couple that with the fact that IBM's newer twinax card controllers don't put out the signal strength that the old ones did (IBM published fact) and the fact that most of our users need Notes and stuff, and you get that terminals just had to be replaced.
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