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From: markw@remote.halcyon.wa.com (Mark Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: cheap ethernet transceivers
Keywords: cheap thernet transceivers
Message-ID: <6Xc1m12w162w@remote.halcyon.wa.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 07:21:16 GMT
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I'm looking for a few cheap ethernet transceivers (isn't everyone).
I almost asked about using the 15 pin cables, but I caught the other
messages in time :-)... Where can I get a book that actually says
blah blah chip so an so does this, and in the xceiver, we use a silly
matching transformer and a couple whatevers and gouge you big bucks?

I mean isn't it possible to build my own transceivers? Almost did it
with appletalk (they sold you a diagram for $20), but now the boxes are
so cheap I don't need to worry about it... 

All books I've ever seen about networks fall into one of two categories:
(1) "well gosh, if you really need to hook them together, go pay a guy
who knows what he's doing to do it for you...", or (2) "Well, here's this
impossible description of layers that you'll think easy once you get a
clue, but we're not gonna help you get that far, and if you want to know
about the hardware, get a job at a place building them"

I desperately desire a book that will quence my thirst for knowledge on
transceivers, ethernet, layers, ftp, tcip, amd ethernet controller chips,
the pin-outs of those silly 15 pin cables.....

-mark