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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Subject: Re: Can twisted-pair and coax be mixed in an ethernet (EtherTalk) LAN?
Date: 13 Dec 90 12:27:12 MST
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.122712.22037@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
References: <12924@milton.u.washington.edu>

In article <12924@milton.u.washington.edu> majors@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Majors) writes:
>Can an ethernet LAN (EtherTalk and AppleShare) use both coax and
>twisted pair?  If so, is there any downside to doing this?

We use a pragmatic mix of coax and 10BASE-T Ethernet on our LANs.  There
is no major downside evident but mind the repeater count, those twisted
pair hubs are repeaters.

-- Walt Haas    haas@ski.utah.edu