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- From: karcher@jevex.waisman.wisc.edu
- Subject: RE: SMC vs. Asante 10BaseT
- Message-ID: <20NOV92.12501874@jevex.waisman.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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- Date: 20 NOV 92 12:50:18 CST
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- In a previous article, dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) wrote:
- > We recently purchased an Asante 10T
- >12 port concentrator to swap with an existing SMC and found that the clients
- >couldn't reach the Novell 3.11 server! I checked to make sure that SQE
- >was turned off on the thicknet transceiver (it was off) and took a look at
- >the Asante concentrator. Every transmit from the client also caused the
- >collision indicator to come on. Since the SMC had no other lights other
- >than LINK, I couldn't tell what was going on. FYI: The ethernet cards were
- >SMC3016TP.
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- I found the Asante hubs to be garbage too. I tried two different units thinking
- the first was bad. Both had excessive collisions and generated receive errors.
- Asante tech support never returned phone calls. I Swapped in a cabletron MRX
- and everything was fine.
-
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- Carl Karcher Internet: KARCHER@WAISMAN.WISC.EDU
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