Path: utzoo!attcan!seachg!jalsop
From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Cost-effective method of connecting PC's to existing TCP/IP LAN
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.212015.11791@seachg.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 90 21:20:15 GMT
Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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We have a client with a small existing thin-net TCP/IP network.  He wishes
to connect some existing PC's in another part of the company to this
network.

The PC's (up to 20 of them) are scattered in individual offices, so there
is a strong preference for a solution using twisted pair wiring.

I see the components required as being:

	- a twisted-pair compatible ethernet card for each PC
	- a TCP/IP software package for each PC, capable of telnet/ftp,
	  and ideally rlogin/rcp to a unix host
	- a multi-port twisted-pair to thin-net converter

My question is: what is the most cost-effective combination of components
to achieve the above.

Comments from people who have done something like this would be greatly
appreciated, as would input from various vendors. I will be glad to post a
summary of replies received.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
John Alsop

Sea Change Corporation
6695 Millcreek Drive, Unit 8
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 5R8
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