[geeks] Hosting centers

[Big Endian]

>[ 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.
>

Actually it turns out to be the switch PORTS them selves, we have 5 
or 6 ports on a 2924xl that just seem to not like us... the same 
cable in a different port solves the issue.  Unfortunately we don't 
have that many free ports on that switch so we'll have to replace it.

daniel