Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!emory!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Ethernet *WAN* (can it be done?)
Message-ID: <173@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 13:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.
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Dear Abby,

Is it possible to run 10Mbps Ethernet over a star topology of offices up to 80
miles apart connected via 9.6 dedicated voice grade lines? 

We are trying to help a company put in a big Unix system to support many 
offices.  We are handling the unix/Pc Lan end of things, someone else the 
wiring/ethernet stuff.

The wiring experts say "no problem... we'll just run ethernet over the whole 
region."   As a result, I am pushed into a single big server configuration. 

Which is fine except if the wiring won't work, the whole schmutz is wrong.  
And something about this smells fishy... what about propagation times?...

Signed,
	Puzzled in Paradise.



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Neal Rhodes                       MNOP Ltd                     (404)- 972-5430
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