[geeks] Hosting centers

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, October 12, 2001 at 13:50:46 (-0400), Big Endian wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Hosting centers
>
> Has anybody ever had troubles with ethernet cabling (plain cat5) in a 
> datacenter?  I'm having network troubles at our server farm (hosted 
> at an exodus data center).  Large levels of packet loss but there 
> isn't any trouble with upto 15-20% packet loss in some cases.  I'm 
> not sure why.  Its not the switch and its not the server loads. 
> Could it be EMI?  would it be worth it to invest in shielded cables?

mabye not EMI, but rather just bad cables.

Anixter have lots of propoganda about how poor cabling and connectors
cause problems and they have a big test lab where they qualify their
own equipment, cables, etc.

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