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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards and long lines
Message-ID: <17572@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 26 Nov 90 21:52:57 GMT
References: <17132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <17358@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
|>In article <17358@netcom.UUCP> jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes:
|>|
|>|If you mean by "drop-line", running 65-125' of thinnet from a tee connector
|>|from another thinnet - you're in violation of the 802.3 10base2 spec.
|>
|>Why does everyone assume this guy is a bozo who's running
|>cable off a thinnet T? I figured he was talking about AUI
|>cables. Wouldn't WD have told him about his error if he
|>was running cables off a thinnet T, instead of admitting
|>_they_ had a problem?

Yes, I (the original poster) forgot to mention that they are THICK ethernet
cables.  

|>
|>The AUI spec is 50 meters so 125 feet should be legal if
|>he is talking about AUI cables.

WD claimed 300 meters, maybe they should read the spec :-) In all fairness I
should read it as well.

Now, before the debate on my bozo rating gets geared up...

Does anybody know of an ethernet card that handles THICK ethernet lines of
125 feet or more?

Thanks in Advance,

-- 
Scott Bostater      Georgia Tech Research Institute - Radar Systems Analysis
"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him"  -Ps 62.1
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