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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Street Walker who wrote (693)	5/19/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Ok, Ok, you've convinced me you have a fistful of T3 lines (in effect) coming in. You are now officially off my Christmas card list <GGG>. I know envy is supposed to be one of the seven deadly sins, but considering my attitude toward sloth, I'm not too concerned. (I consider sloth more of a life objective than a sin <gggggg>.) In your case you will in fact (if I read it correctly) sit on a network with at least some 10-baseT stations, so you must decide if you're going to split for a bridging 10/100 hub (my best price so far is $399 as in earlier message) or settle for 10mb in your entire lan setup. I still have 10mb in my lan exactly because of this problem. BUT if I were doing it now (with all the gear available) I would mix the two, or at least would try it until I figured out it was a bad idea. I've posted before about trying to anticipate by buying part "this" gear you can't fully use right now for future implementation of "that" feature. My experience has definitely been that "that" feature requires "other" gear which you ain't got. Therefore I would recommend you either go for the 10/100 hookup, your local PCs being 100 and your internet connection being 10, or go for the whole enchalada now at 10 and think about 100 later. You will not notice 10 vs 100 on your internet connection. You WILL notice the difference in pc-to-pc connections. Especially if you use something like PC Anywhere to avoid going to another keyboard or into another room (as I do sometimes). Is this more confusing? Good. That's what you get for your 10mb internet connection. <G> I'm going off now to purge my Christmas card list ... Regards, Spots