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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Ethernet Factoid
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Date: 12 Apr 90 17:41:03 GMT
References: <76700190@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1990Apr10.195000.7522@utzoo.uucp> <19596@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <19596@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes:
| Can somebody tell me what the theoretical maximum rate that you can push
| data down an RG-58 (or even the 75 ohm RG-59) cable.  

  I have no idea what the LIMIT is, but this stuff is used to distribute
TV and FM radio, so it's > 100 MHz limit, since that's the middle of the
FM band. We're running 10MHz ethernet over twisted pair these days, so
decent cable has lots of headroom.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me