Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Ethernet transceiver failures (lightning?) Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 19:38:44 GMT References: <1989Sep11.042502.26171@bpdsun1.uucp> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 We do not recommend running copper of any kind between buildings. You can sometimes get away with it, but it's asking for trouble. Rather than running ethernet coax, you should use fiber. The most straightforward approach is probably to use a fiber remote repeater. This is two halves of a repeater connected by fiber. The fiber can be up to 1 km, if I recall the Ethernet configuration rules. If you have a PVC tube, it might not be too much work to replace the coax with fiber. You can get remote repeaters from DEC and a number of other vendors of Ethernet hardware.