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- From: Mehrtens_T@msm.cdx.mot.com
- Subject: Re: Pigtail terminators
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.174401.7131@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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- References: <4946@wet.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:44:01 GMT
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- In article <4946@wet.UUCP> dg@wet.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
- >... just how essential are they: I seem to be getting on just fine
- >with two regular terminators.
-
- David: There are two issues: 1) safety. All ethernet cables must be (well,
- should be) grounded at one point only. 2) Efficiency - I have seen where
- ungrounded ethernet cable generates more electrical noise (thus more bad
- packets) when the traffic is high (50%).
-
- Two P.C.'s on a bench connected back to back sounds O.K. to me. I would leave
- it this way. The cable will be succeptable to static electricity, however. It
- depends!
-
- Tom Mehrtens
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