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From: cjroehrig@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Connecting Thick Ethernet to the NeXT
Keywords: how to do it?
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Date: 29 Jun 90 17:47:27 GMT
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We have a new NeXT that we want to connect to the campus Ethernet
backbone.  We have a 25 meter Ethernet drop in our lab which would
do fine except that it has a DB15 (thick Ethernet) connector on the
end.
    So we need an adapter to go from the DB15 connector to a
BNC connector -- should be pretty straight-forward, right?
Well, all the Ethernet users I have talked to say that there's
a box that does just that for around $300, but nobody has any
definite information.  When I talk to the network people, they
all say that the only way to do what I want is to buy a single-
port repeater, which they'd be happy to sell me for $1637 (CDN). 
This is apparently a box with a DB15 connector and a single
BNC port.

    So what's the deal?  Surely someone else out there has
tried to connect a NeXT to a thick ethernet line.  I find it
hard to believe that this requires $1600 worth of electronics.

Chris Roehrig
Audio Research Group
University of Waterloo, Canada