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I'll agree with the 95% media converter Out of that its usually 80% the power-supply to the media converter has died or is producing some weird voltage the MC cant deal with and appears to be running, but is spewing randomness into the fiber/ether !<br /><br />Greg.<br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Peter Tonoli" <peter@medstv.unimelb.edu.au></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Jake Anderson" <yahoo@vapourforge.com><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><ausnog@lists.ausnog.net><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:01:59 +1100 (EST)<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [AusNOG] Cable length limits?<br /><br /><br />
> From: "Jake Anderson" <yahoo@vapourforge.com><br />
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 12:09:13 AM<br />
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cable length limits?<br />
> Media converters can be had pretty cheap these days, I'd be looking in<br />
> to perhaps running those if you are on a budget.<br />
> Otherwise put in smaller switches spread about the place with a fibre<br />
> backbone.<br /><br />
I don't know whether it's just me, but whenever I hear the term "media converter", "single point of failure" comes to mind. My experience is that when there are issues with a network link that has a media converter somewhere, there's a 95% chance that the fault is in the media converter. (perhaps it's just me).<br /><br />
Peter.<br />
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