[HECnet] FDDI advice

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:19:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/10/2013 01:16 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
Fddi was the answer for production plants that required 100% uptime
Only once did Fddi let me down and made me go back to work at 3:30 am,
the worst time to wake up. One of the boards in a gs/fddi failed,
isolating two plants. 
I did manage to explode a power supply in a gs. Made one hell of    bang,
fortunately that part was redundant so the net stayed up.

  Yuck!

Compared to fast ethernet, I prefer fddi.

  Same here.

Too expensive for private or hobbyist use though. 

  Hardly.   You just need the right connections.   I was nearly 100% FDDI
on my home network in the mid-1990s...didn't take all that much money.
I didn't have much! ;)

Hell, when I got into FDDI in the early 2000s it was cheaper than
FastEthernet!

-brian