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Re: Dorm Rooms To Be Wired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Wed May 19 16:40:30 1993
To: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Cc: dbaron@MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron), resnet-planning@MIT.EDU, resnet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 19 May 93 09:27:32 -0500.
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 16:40:03 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Another problem which may exist with deciding which rooms to wire involves
crowded lounges in dorms like MacGregor. For political reasons, these
are not recognized by the dorms as permanent rooms (they have no
permanant mailboxes in MacGregor). However, sometimes two or more people
live in them at times (they will not all be occupied next year due to the
smaller admitted class size, according to some rumors).
A potential technical problem exists as well. These lounge doubles contain
only one bundle of 4 twisted pairs (8 wires total) as opposed to the two
bundles (16 wires total) that other rooms have. It is rumored that
installing more wires into MacGregor is also very difficult because of the
poor design of the building.
--- Erik Nygren
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