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In article <6r55s0$oe$2@news2.myriad.net>, mike.luther@ziplog.com wrote:
>In <MJg11oHpv22X092yn@skypoint.com>, rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) writes:

>>You using BNC connecters (the twisty coax connectors)?  I used to have
>>my boxes connected in DOS using that, but I used tee-connectors on each
>>box, and I put a terminator at each end as well (connected to the tee).
>>
>>Maybe that's not needed for a two-box thinnet connection...?
>
>It's not. whatever termination is needed is card done for sure there,
>but read on..

Not quite sure what you're saying there, but termination is required 
at both ends of the network.

>He also needs to know, if he wants to do the THIN net deal with the
>coax, that in addition to the two 52 ohm BNC terminators, which have to
>be on the far ends of the cable even if there are ten computers on tee
>connectors over the whole lenght, there really is a minimal length
>requirement between boxes!
>
>My recall is that there shouldn't be anything less than 8 feet or so of
>cable between any two tee connectors, right?

That applies to the old 10Base5 networks, which used a larger cable. 
For 10Base2 the minimum distance is 1.5 feet.


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