>Have I lost my mind? Not, as you know, a techie.
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> Janice
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> Janice
No, you're not losing your mind, but you are repeating yourself. We must work together to stamp out and abolish redundancy.
My experience with Xircom is limited, but unpleasant. Due to the distance and length restrictions on the type of network wiring we use, there is what's called a "repeater" between the 1st and 2nd floor of my offices. It's a passive device that intercepts the packets of data traveling between the 1st and 2nd floor wires and retransmits them with a little extra oomph (technical term, ya know).
Anyway, if you remember from earlier discussions, each device on the network has it's own unique address (excluding the repeater). It seemed that when I hooked my Thinkpad up to the network using a Xircom card, I could converse with any device on my floor, but could not see anything on the other side of the repeater. Well, I found that situation to be quite annoying, since my office is not on the same floor as the Unix server and Ascend box that connects our ethernet network to the Internet. Therefore, I was on the wrong side of the repeater from everthing that I needed to talk to.
Well, after we futzed around with the thing for a couple of weeks, I finally relented and bought a 3Com ethernet card, slapped it in and, you guessed it, it works like a charm.
The Xircom card had been made into a shim for leveling my credenza, a task for which it seems to be very well suited. |
