[777] in resnet
Re: experience with Belkin?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McClosky, Matt)
Wed Feb 6 11:35:18 2002
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <812F6674BAA88945AFE63A1522E9C6E517316F@atlas.union-mis.union.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:25:26 -0500
Reply-To: Resnet Forum <RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu>
From: "McClosky, Matt" <mccloskm@UNION.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
I have run into the same issues with Belkins patch panels!
It would seem only a belkin cable would work with them, and sometimes
not even that.
A generic cable couldn't physically reach the connection taps in the
patch panel.
Again I have no experience with the cards.
However the cables are overrated and grossly overpriced.
Matt McClosky
Union College Networking Division
Information Technology Services
-----Original Message-----
From: miles [mailto:miles@NS.RESNET.GATECH.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:08 AM
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: experience with Belkin?
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
___________________________________________________
You are subscribed to the ResNet-L mailing list.
To subscribe, unsubscribe or search the archives,
go to http://LISTSERV.ND.EDU/archives/resnet-l.html
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
You are subscribed to the ResNet-L mailing list.
To subscribe, unsubscribe or search the archives,
go to http://LISTSERV.ND.EDU/archives/resnet-l.html
___________________________________________________
