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Re: running network cable through windows and walls?

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From: Matt Dillon
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:00
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:In article <6shp0b$f0e$1@samba.rahul.net>,
:Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@08.usenet.us.com> wrote:
:>In <UwUG1.35$kE2.252043@news.shore.net> holmes73@hotmail.com writes:
:>
:>>I have to agree.  I had to troubleshoot a problem where a length of 75 ohm
:>>cable was used to connect a new machine in my lab.  There were 3 machines
:>>in a row on a bench.  2 and 3 could talk to each other, but not to
:>>anything else on the network, and 1 could talk to the rest of the network
:>>and 3, but not 2.  We wasted a LOT of time trying to figure this one out.
:>
:>This is an argument against thinnet.  Really, it's an argument against
:>out-of-spec coax.
:>
:>You can easily create the same scenario by using out-of-spec twisted
:>pair wiring.
:>-- 
:>Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>

    IMHO, I've had to run a hellofalot of coax in my life, and with BEST I've
    run a hellofalot of cat-5 cable to HUBs and switches.

    The difference between maintaining a coax-based network and a hub'd or
    switched network is the difference between night and day.  Literally.

					-Matt

-- 
    Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
                    Communications
    <dillon@best.net> (Please include original email in any response)
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From: dillon@best.net (Matt Dillon)
Subject: Re: running network cable through windows and walls?
Date: 1998/09/01
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