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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards and long lines
Message-ID: <915@redford.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 90 15:08:14 GMT
References: <17358@netcom.UUCP> <1990Nov26.180842.9530@amd.com> <17572@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Nov27.072930.1813@amd.com> <1990Nov27.234433.25050@sj.ate.slb.com> <1482@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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In article <1482@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> curci@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (Raymond Curci) writes:
>Maybe I can shed some light on the subject:
>
>500m	maximum thick ethernet cable length
Speaking of light;
	I heard that fiber optics, which is the ultimate "thin" net, thin is
just to describe the width of the wires, having a maximum length of
2400m.  Also the maximum transfer rate, given the proper communications
hardware is 100 Megabit througput.
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