Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!panix!alexis From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: kinetics-phonenet-kinetics Message-ID: <1990Oct1.175040.3820@panix.uucp> Date: 1 Oct 90 17:50:40 GMT References: <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 27 In article evelyn@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast) writes: >In article <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> capuano@SUN.CNUCE.CNR.IT ("Vincenzo G. Capuano") writes: >>Hi, >>we have two buildings at about half a mile away each other. We would like >>to connect the two ethernets, using two kinetics and phonenet between them. >>In this way we could reach 230kbps between the two ethernets. >>[etc.] >Why do this? Why not run ethernet thru the phone cable. You can >do that as far as I know. Ethernet is faster than appletalk. > >Evelyn With UTP Ethernet, you can do about 100 meters. 110 if you're lucky. On the other hand, AppleTalk PhoneNet is rated at 3000 feet (~1000 meters) and can actually go to 4000 feet without problems, especially if you use 22 gauge wire. 110 meters < .5 miles. 3000 feet > .5 miles. (BTW, I never really had enough appreciation for PhoneNet until I started doing UTP EtherNet. 10BaseT is wonderful, but the flexibility of PhoneNet after you've been dealing with UTP for a week is just amazing.) --- Alexis Rosen {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis alexis@panix.uucp