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From: tawab@net4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Simple thin ethernet question
Message-ID: <13200001@net4>
Date: 28 Jul 89 20:25:04 GMT
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Nf-From: net4.UUCP!tawab    Jul 28 09:38:00 1989



/* ---------- "Simple thin ethernet question" ---------- */
Hi, Kenneth Herron

	>Hello,

	>our company is moving into new offices, and we're having the thin
	>ethernet prewired along with the phone lines.  Now, the guy doing the
	>.....
	>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?  Can we keep the main cable 
	>and the T in the wall and run a short piece of cable to the network card?
	>How long can this stub piece be?  Assuming we can't do this,
	>any suggestions for doing this wiring aesthetically?

	>Many thanks in advance,

First I tried to mail but it bounced, where are you, in UK, US, ???
We have a Yellow Cable Ethernet, but I guess there are just some differences
in the lenght of the Cable. I can't belive the you are conecting the "T"
(I guess "T" == Tranciever ?) to the Network-Card. We have superminis and pc's
but all are connectet via a Tranciever-Cable to the network-card.
The way I connect Machines to Ethernet is like the following pictures:


    <- 2.5 m ->
===T===========T=========================== Ethernet(Max 500 m)
   |           |
   |-Tranciever Cable(Max 20 m)
   |           |
 [pc]        [UNIX]  

An other posibility:


===============T========================== Ethernet(Max 500 m)
               |-Tranciever-Cable
               |
    [Fanout whith 7 posible connections]
      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  
      |           |
      |-Tranciever|Cable
      |           |
     [pc]   [An Second Fanout] and so on (I think up to 5 Fanouts)

I hope I could help you with these pic, if you have any more questions


Robin Tawab
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