[776] in resnet
Re: experience with Belkin?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (miles)
Wed Feb 6 11:23:31 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:08:12 -0500
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From: miles <miles@NS.RESNET.GATECH.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020206082257.02bc9220@stan.mail.ncsu.edu>; from
stan_martin@NCSU.EDU on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:34:28AM -0500
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:34:28AM -0500, Stan North Martin wrote:
> 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
> 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.
We saw this same interaction with some old ATT and Hubbell
jacks. We took the students Belkin back at the office and threw it
away and gave them a new cable. Problem solved.
It was real fun to trouble shoot over the phone.
Student: I'm having intermittent connection problems.
ResNet: Does your network cable say Belkin on it?
Student: Uh, what. Yeah.
ResNet: Bring it to the office you need a new cable.
Student: What, uh. OK.
It worked every time.
Miles
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