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- From: richard_kogut@brown.edu (Richard M. Kogut)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Subject: Re: Token Ring vs. Ethernet
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:39:27 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Computing & Information Services
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- Message-ID: <richard_kogut.1.0@brown.edu>
- References: <1992Nov18.172211.10451@mccc.edu> <1992Nov19.190924.12205@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.190924.12205@netcom.com> seifert@netcom.com (Rich Seifert) writes:
- >From: seifert@netcom.com (Rich Seifert)
- >Subject: Re: Token Ring vs. Ethernet
- >Date: 19 Nov 92 19:09:24 GMT
- >In article <1992Nov18.172211.10451@mccc.edu>, pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
- >> If you were starting from scratch (in a college) and had to network 5
- >> rooms of 30 MS-DOS/Windows PCs (using multiple servers), would you use
- >> Ethernet or Token Ring, and why?
- >>
- >> Background: a local resident who is an expert for a company that is very
- >> big in PC networking says that the only reasons that so many campuses are
- >> networked with Ethernet rather than Token Ring are that (a) Ethernet was
- >> on the scene first and (b) until recently, Ethernet was less expensive.
- >> He contends that Token Ring is the answer to the question in the first
- >> paragraph in that it is now about the same cost as Ethernet, has larger
- >> packets and is thus more efficient, and has about 60% higher throughput.
- >>
- I agree with everyone recommending Ethernet. Note that with modern Ethernets,
- you would use a 10BASE-T hub with star wiring which should give better
- reliability than Token Ring. You could also use standard Level 3 UTP wiring
- (although you should put in Level 5 if no wires are there now). If there were
- multiple servers, you could also use Kalpana-style Ethernet switching to get
- performance benefits unavailable with Token Ring, at a very low cost.
- Richard M. Kogut, Manager, Systems Services
- Brown University Computing & Information Services
-