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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: How do you string a thinnet?
Message-ID: <12327@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 01:22:30 GMT
References: <1670@tfd.UUCP> <8910241805.AA26176@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU> <431@cutsys.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <431@cutsys.UUCP>, cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt) writes:
> 	That is, until I started thinking about extending our net-
> work to the Sales building.  It's currently confined to our Service
> building.  We already have a bunch of (presumably twisted-pair,
> though I wouldn't swear to it -- looks like a gob of 22 guage solid
> wire packed into a sheath) phone wiring installed between the two
> buildings, only half of which is in use for the phones.  I wanted to
> use this to make the link.

Well, you could use any of the 10BaseT (draft) twisted pair stuff,
but -- if you're going between buildings I *very* strongly suggest
that you use fiber.  It's worth it for a variety of reasons, especially
during thunderstormseason.