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In article <19990412.2155.4684snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>, Michael Salem
<4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk> writes
>Ernest wrote about a 600m Ethernet (see previous messages):
>
>> Hi Michael
>> 
>> If all hubs are connected to a thin ethernet backbone, then the
>> transmission path between any 2 dte's will only contain 3 segments.
>> 3com officeconnect hub instructions says you can connect 30 hubs on
>> the single segment thin e'net backbone. DLink mini hub instructions
>> say exactly the same. So, I guess it's ok? I've not tried. :)
>
>What I posted skips a train of thought. If you've got to span 600m 
>you can't have a (max 185m) thin Ethernet backbone, though you could 
>have a 500m _thick_ Ethernet (yellow hosepipe) backbone, with a hub 
>at one end and UTP for the last 100m. In which case you could, I 
>suppose, hang 30 hubs off the backbone; I've never tried, either.

I've got some yellow hosepipe, f**king massive it is, too.  I reckon it
could *easily* do the 600m even though it is over the specification.

You *may* be able to just link it straight into the thin ethernet as
well, don't hold me to that but the transponder devices I have for thick
ethernet just need a different cable size adapter and they work
perfectly on my thin ethernet LAN.

TB