[54654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fast ethernet limits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Fri Jan 10 17:54:29 2003
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:53:11 -0500
To: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3E1F4979.1F3FC239@swbell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
AGREED, one end and one end only, or youre asking for a ground
loop....ground the end with the best, shortest path to earth ground.....in
his case, that would prob be the telco room end, "usually" theres a decent
ground there somewhere.....
Mileage may differ...
At 16:30 1/10/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>[...]
> > moreover they're signifcantly harder to install since they need to be
> > properly grounded and shielded at both ends.
>
> I've actually seen some very impressive ground loops. I'd ground one
>end. (Actually I'd use fiber, but hey.)
>
>Peter E. Fry
