On Nov 29, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Dan Foster wrote:
Hot Diggety! Luke S Crawford was rumored to have written:
Now, for the reasons other people on the list have stated, I do
prefer
fiber for long runs, or through electrically uncertain areas, but my
personal experience? copper usually wins in terms of reliability,
for
the two above reasons.
That reliability can certainly be undone by, well, less familiar
people. ;-)
David Nolan was rumored to have written:
Cabling typically doesn't just fail spontaneously...
ha!!
all bets are off when cable are not properly or adequately dressed.
then you can have all sorts of effects, transient and systemic
(like only failing when the rack door is closed).
also, for RJ connectors, sometime the little tabs break off or don't
engage; these too are problems waiting to happen.
i have found that in environments where cabling is done poorly,
cable failures are our second biggest failure cause (after disk).
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