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jimbopalmer
Tsar of all the Rushers
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Greenwood, MS

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Re: would these cat7 Cables be better then the monoprice cat6a?

Whatever modem he has, has a Cat 5e jack on it, whatever consumer router has has, has all Cat 5e jacks. I would be 99.9% sure whatever NIC he has has a Cat 5e jack on it. He will not be testing a Cat 7 system until he uses all Cat 7 parts.

»www.newegg.com/Product/P ··· odwwMAGg

I could be wrong. I have been wrong before. (In 1992 I bet that fiber would replace Cat5)
cramer
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Raleigh, NC
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(In 1992 I bet that fiber would replace Cat5)

Give it more time. This has been increasingly true in the carrier / data center space (some 1G, all 10G and beyond.) Fiber will never be popular for desktop computing as it's too complicated and far to easy to break.
jimbopalmer
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Greenwood, MS

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said by cramer:

Fiber will never be popular for desktop computing as it's too complicated and far to easy to break.

Yes, FDDI to the desktop never worked out for us.
cramer
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If we're honest, 10base2 wasn't too rosy either. Crushed cables, nicked shielding, BNC ends pulled off, the occasional "removed terminator" and "replug it" bad connections... (the same problems I still deal with for RF cabling)
Kearnstd
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said by cramer:

(In 1992 I bet that fiber would replace Cat5)

Give it more time. This has been increasingly true in the carrier / data center space (some 1G, all 10G and beyond.) Fiber will never be popular for desktop computing as it's too complicated and far to easy to break.

I could see it gaining ground in a few limited spaces. video and graphics editing where huge huge files need to be moved.

But I cannot see the average cube monkey needing more than copper based links. FTTD(fiber to the department) I am sure is getting common though. so if each floor is broken up into sections the network closets have a fiber link but its ethernet to the desktops.
jimbopalmer
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join:2008-06-02
Greenwood, MS

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said by Kearnstd:

(In 1992 I bet that fiber would replace Cat5)

I could see it gaining ground in a few limited spaces. video and graphics editing where huge huge files need to be moved.

But I cannot see the average cube monkey needing more than copper based links. FTTD(fiber to the department) I am sure is getting common though. so if each floor is broken up into sections the network closets have a fiber link but its ethernet to the desktops.

In 1992, all copper is 10 meg half duplex, shared. I will have as many as 144 users on one hub. To get as much as 100 meg, (still shared) I need fiber.

10 meg switching is $10,500 in 1994 for 8 ports
»www.networkcomputing.com ··· s_5.html

It will be 1996, before I can get 100 meg copper, I start getting $9000 16 port switches. (they don't autodetect speed or duplex, and at least one port has to be 10 meg or they won't boot)
»www.channelweb.co.uk/crn ··· cs-28115
(Here is a March 1996 review, it 'only' costs 16,000 pounds)

In 1998, I put my FDDI network down, and use gig ethernet over fiber for my core and 100 meg switched copper to every desktop.