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Cat 4 cable is certified to run at up to 20MHz. You can achieve speeds of up to 16Mbps, such as with the 16Mbps token-ring standard.
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Cat 4 - Starting at about 5 PM New Year's Eve and continuing until way pastmy usual bedtime, then continuing after I woke up Thursday morning,I made some expansions to my computer.For one, I installed an additional hard drive. I still have myoriginal hard drive of 20 GB, which is partioned into Windows 2000 (12GB) and Linux sections (8 GB). In addition I now have a new 80 GBdrive. The original drive is 'C', the new hard drive is 'F'. Myoriginal CD player was 'D' which it still is.For two, I now have a CD/DVD player/burner which is known as 'E'. Itis Hewlitt Packard DVD300i by model number. The main reason for theadditional hard 80 GB hard drive was to insure lots of swap space whenburning new CDs, to make the manufacture of same go as quickly aspossible. The little removable 62 MB drive in the USB slot (a tinylittle thing about the size of my finger) is now 'G'. And I still havethe floppy device, which is 'A'.I have been giving some thought to moving Windows 2000 onto the new80 GB drive (F) and expanding Linux to the full 20 GB drive (C) whichused to be split between Windows and Linux. I presume I would stillhave to partition the new 80 GB drive (F) to give the new HP writerand reader about 60 GB of swap space. Yes or No? Will 60 GB beadequate for the CD/DVD burner swap space? Yes or No? I do not wantto have to load and unload the swap space repeatedly to get my workdone.Another project I have in mind: Although I still maintain that myold Toshiba Satellite 220 Windows 95 is the sturdiest work horse inmy network, I have pretty much given up on expanding it to anythinglarger. It just won't handle the added work load. It *might* beupgradeable to Windows 98, or maybe not, but Micrsoft has saidtheir support of Win 98 is ending in a few months, and I really donot think that old (1996) laptop running 122 megs would go to anymorethan that. I know it certainly would not be able to handle 2000 orXP. So the 95 just sits there with its old parallel port camera (fromZoom Telephonics, remember those?) and sends pictures out to whoeverwants to see them at http://patricktownson.us.tf .But I have thought the Windows 98 (which is on a Winbook XL2 laptop)might be an ideal candidate for conversion to Windows 2000 or Linux.Any thoughts from readers on this? Good idea? Bad idea? And why? Ithas a 6 GB hard drive. At the present time (as Windows 98) it hasnumerous problems: For one, it tends to just turn itself off on anarbitrary basis. Other times, it will not permit itself to be turnedoff short of forcing it down with the master switch. Mostly it isused for feeding out to http://weatherforecast.us.tf the data fromthe weather station mechanicals on my back porch roof.Although each computer has its own display screen, keyboard and mouse,I can view them on a jumbo monitor using a KVM switch which is handyat times. From the master keyboard, doing 1 through 3 gets me control over each computer. 4 blanks the screen, and F1 getsme a continuously rotating display from the various computers.Any suggestions for improving/cleaning up this mess will be appreciated.PAT
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