More careless --- UTP is more forgiving than 10Base2; if you leave a cable
dangling unconnected (or accidentally snap the cable) a UTP LAN will still
work aside from the machine(s) disconnected by the cable break, whereas
10Base2 will probably give you many errors and kill throughput on the entire
LAN.
It's considered bad form for a cable break on one side of the building to
screw up a file transfer between two machines next to each other on the
other side of the building... bot with 10Base2 this can happen.
And Cat.5 is more flexible; I can run a cable under the floor a lot more
easily and with less risk of damaging the cable (see previous paragraph).
Putting a kink in coax can put a pretty serious kink in your network even if
the cable isn't broken!
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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