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Article #928Re: Need Thin Ethernet Info
From: Geoff Arnold
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1986 16:34
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1986 16:34
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What we did was to have a wall plate with two BNC connectors installed in
each office. For those (few) offices whose benighted denizens don't use
Ethernet, we just put in a 6" jumper to maintain the continuity of the
net. Otherwise we run two coax segments to the machine, connecting them to a
T-tap or (via adaptors) to a 3Com screw-in transceiver. We exceeded the 1000'
limitation, and started getting into problems at the hairy edge (our file
server being at one end of the net), so we added a UB repeater. It all
just works, and was far cheaper than putting in the thick stuff. It is also
really convenient if you have several machines in one office (some of us
are just spoilt, I guess).
Geoff
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site suneast.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!linus!security!sunne!suneast!geoff From: geoff@suneast.uucp (Geoff Arnold) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Need Thin Ethernet Info Message-ID: <133@suneast.uucp> Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 11:34:43 EST Article-I.D.: suneast.133 Posted: Mon Feb 10 11:34:43 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 07:31:58 EST References: <1575@emory.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - East Coast Division Lines: 19