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From: craig@hprnd.HP.COM (Craig Blackwood)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Simple thin ethernet question
Message-ID: <2230017@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 15:34:56 GMT
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Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division
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> agollum@engr.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) /  6:54 pm  Jul 24, 1989 /
> 
> My question is quite simple:  all the docs we have on installing the
> cables show both halves of the cable running right up to the back of the
> computer, and the T connector attaching directly to the network card
> in the PC.  Does it HAVE to be this way?

Whether or not it has to be this way depends on the network interface card on
the machines that you are connecting.  You might be able to plug an AUI cable
into the card and plug the MAU into the T connector on the floor or near the
wall.

> Can we keep the main cable 
> and the T in the wall and run a short piece of cable to the network card?

NO.

> How long can this stub piece be?  Assuming we can't do this,
> any suggestions for doing this wiring aesthetically?

Did you consider Starlan 10 (i.e. 10BaseT) instead of ThinLAN?  The guy that is
a wiz with telephone wiring would also be a wiz with this.  To use StarLAN 10
either 1) your network interface cards would have to have a StarLAN 10 connector
or 2) you could use a StarLAN 10 MAU.  HP makes a number of StarLAN 10 products
(I wonder why I thought of them first :-), I believe that ATT, UB and SynOptics
also have StarLAN 10 products.

> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Kenneth Herron
> ----------

Hope the information helps.

Craig Blackwood
Hewlett Packard Roseville Networks Division

craig@hprnd.rose.hp.com
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