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From: haas@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: repeaters
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.160418.29778@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:04:18 GMT
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In article <1772@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> derrick@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Derrick Rowlandson) writes:
>
>I am looking at repeaters to extend the segment lenght of one
>of our thinwire segments.
>
>Cabletron have two units that seem prepared to do the job, they
>are MR-2000(multiport repeater), which is a single segment version of the 8
> port multiport repeater (ie: one AUI port, one thinwire port). The
> other is an LR-2000 (local repeater), which has 2 AUI connections....
>The only advantage I can see with the LR is if you are lookng to connect two
>hosts together, this would allow you to do so without a coax segment.

The other thing you use repeaters for is to change media, eg. by putting
a Fiber Optic Transceiver on one side.  You can do this with an AUI but
not with a thinnet port.

-- Walt