[775] in resnet
Re: experience with Belkin?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan North Martin)
Wed Feb 6 08:56:23 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:34:28 -0500
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From: Stan North Martin <stan_martin@NCSU.EDU>
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I can't speak to the Belkin Ethernet cards, however, last year we had fits
with the Belkin cables our bookstore was selling. They ended up buying them
back from students and selling the ones we had told them to sell in the
first place (the ones our telecom group bulk orders that were much less
expensive and higher quality). The contact depth tolerance on Belkin's
RJ-45 connectors was off just enough that in many cases they did not make a
good connection with the Netgear cards and the data jacks on the wall.
Incidentally, part of the blame probably lies with the Netgear cards as
well, since the RJ-45 receptacle on their FA-310TX NICs is not quite as
deep as some other manufacturers' cards, e.g. 3Com. So much for "standards"!
FWIW,
Stan
At 02:13 PM 2/5/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Our Bookstore is interested in getting network cards from Belkin. Do
>any of you have anything good or bad to say about them, particularly
>the F5D5000 and F5D5020 cards?
>
>John Rocchio
>ResNet Manager
>UC Santa Cruz
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