[779] in resnet
Re: experience with Belkin?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabio A. Seminario)
Wed Feb 6 13:58:31 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:53:49 -0600
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From: "Fabio A. Seminario" <fsemin@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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I agree (if it is www.belkin.com you speak of). They have a nice selection
of peripherals and cables. But there are other sites and companies that sell
the same things for less.
Fabio Seminario
----- Original Message -----
From: "McClosky, Matt" <mccloskm@UNION.EDU>
To: <RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: experience with Belkin?
> 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
>
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