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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. :)

Hello Ernest,

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.

You can't daisy-chain hubs because you'd need too many (which is what
I was thinking of when I posted). You might be able to manage: one 
end; 100m UTP; hub; 100m UTP; hub; 185m thin Ethernet; repeater; 185m 
thin Ethernet; hub; 100m UTP; other end.

Or fibre, or thick Ethernet.

(BTW, RJ45=UTP=10BaseT for practical purposes)

HTH,
-- 
Michael Salem