Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!nntppost From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Cheapernet/RG-58 cabling question Message-ID: <1990Dec19.221059.18023@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 19 Dec 90 22:10:59 GMT Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 27 We've an RG-58 network powered by a Cabletron something-or-another, and things are working just fine. Except people have decided to put computers in offices which have no "slack" in the RG-58. Given the following cable layout, what's the longest that strand can be? Is it just a part of the total distance of the cable? RG-58 running along a baseboard T connector ------------------------------------------T------------------------- | | | strand | | ----- Some luser's computer. | | | | ----- -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Mangler - UH Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 "If you are the system administrator and this is the first time you are logging into your system, use the login name root." -- IBM RS/6000 docs