Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!piglet!madler From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: that darn ethernet question again... Keywords: ethernet Message-ID: <1990Oct15.172148.9691@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 17:21:48 GMT References: <291@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <9037@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Oct14.063939.13655@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: piglet.caltech.edu Here is cheapest kosher way that I know of to connect the NeXT to a thick net, straight from the horse's mouth ... -- Cabletron sells a MR-2000C Singleport Repeater for $695 that does -- exactly what you need. The local number I have for them is -- (408) 441-9900. -- -- Brent Loschen -- NeXT Systems Engineer There are other non-kosher possibilities, such as splicing a thin coax into a thick coax directly (major reflection problems likely there), or yanking the transceiver chip in the NeXT and using the signal pairs that come into that chip to connect to a think-net transceiver. Mark Adler madler@piglet.caltech.edu