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John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Ethernet fan out

"By the way, does anyone else remember AMP taps?"

Yes. Except those spring connectors could bend themselves and cause a break with temperature changes (maybe cheap sockets were used), especially in an old building with a Victorian style heating system which involved no radiators as we know them today, just 3-4" diameter cast iron pipes at about desk height just below the wall sockets. We eventually told the customer that we'd not be attending any more network cable failures until they did something about it as it was an environmental issue we had no control over, not a wear'n'tear or damage issue. (no, we didn't install it.) As you might expect, everyone "south" of the affected socket would lose network connectivity, and after "fixing" it, required a Netware server reboot to get those users reconnected.

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