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said by phxmark See Profile :

Token ring would only die on a client cable or feed cable cut with the old STP BIG BLACK CONNECTORS using a passive MAU. The old shorting type connectors so that when it was unplugged the token would still get passed, but a cut was usually fatal to the ring.
IME in the one token ring shop that I worked in, the weak point was at the NIC. Every packet had to pass through every NIC along the way. While the big square wall sockets were shorting, the DIX connectors at the NIC end were not. Even when the wiring was perfect, all it took was a single NIC's transceiver to fail to cause a similar (and harder to find) outage. And they did fail, too often for my tastes. IIRC that was still a weakness with the 16 Mbps UTP topology.
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