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[edit] 10baseT V 10BaseT

Gah, what a mess. Should it be 100baseTX or 100BaseTX? We have both. -- ansible

I think it should be 100BaseTx. Wesley
No, we already have 10base2, 10base5 and 10baseT —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.205.123.10 (talk)
None of the above. These designations are so often misquoted, but they are correctly 10BASE2, 10BASE5 and 10BASE-T
Similarly 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-SX, etc.
I would correct the article now, but I'm not feeling up to learning how to rename all the relevent articles and create redirects. I would confirm, however, that I have as I type this a copy on my lap of the official IEEE Ethernet standard (2000 edition) -- all 1515 pages of it -- and I have verified the above designations against it. The general rule would appear to be that the designations are entirely uppercase, with no punctucation, except that if BASE is followed by an alphabetic (rather than numeric) designation, it is separated by a hyphen. I believe there are other minor errors in the article, I will come back to this when I have time. -roy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.253.128.7 (talk)
Ok I think I've done this right, I've fixed up the ones I've found, though there may well be others. As to whether we really need a separate entry for every flavour of ethernet, I'll leave that up to someone else... -roy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roybadami (talk • contribs)
Also note that there is no hyphen between 10G and BASE in the 10Gbps standards, eg 10GBASE-SR -roy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roybadami (talk • contribs)

[edit] Frame format

The frame format stuff needs checking, as it is severely confusing even with references open in front of me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.253.40.212 (talk)

[edit] So much more to write

There is so much more to write about here: AUIs, heartbeats, spanning tree, VLANs, G Ethernet and its relationship to Fiber Channel, 10G Ethernet and its relationship to SONET... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.158.106.250 (talk)

I now added a "See also" section and listed some of the terms. Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet have their own pages, so Fiber Channel and SONE should be mentioned there (SONET already is, very shortly). Colin Marquardt

[edit] 100 megabit thicknet

I have seen 100base5 (100mbit thicknet) beeing refered to in the manual of my IBM rs/6000 unix machine, and when searching around the web it seems to really exist. Does anyone know more which they can add in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.238.230.200 (talk)

[edit] Pronunciation dispute

According to most online dictionaries that I have reviewed, the standard pronunciation is with accent on the initial long "E". There does appear to be a conventionally used alternate pronunciation with the accent on the "eth" with a short "e". However this only applies to the generic use of the word, since the trademarked name uses the former pronunciation.

Since this is a somewhat disputed point, the least-contoversial approach is just to leave this out, since pronunciation is not typically included in Wikipedia articles (this is better handled in Wiktionary). If the point of dispute is important enough to include, it should at least address the commonality of both forms of pronunciation, support any assertions, and use IPA pronunctiaton markup as described in article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28pronunciation%29 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Limbo socrates (talk • contribs)

[edit] Realtime Ethernet Issues

Does it make sense to include a chapter about Realtime Ethernet here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.180.123.245 (talk)

[edit] Re-arrangement would increase readability

I suggest that if one has some spare seconds, moving the general information like history on the top would be a good idea. That way, when someone who isnt technically oriented ends up on the article, he or she can read the history section before moving along. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wk muriithi (talk • contribs)