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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cheapernet/RG-58 cabling question
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.151953.11629@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 22:19:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.221059.18023@lavaca.uh.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <1990Dec19.221059.18023@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>
>
>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
><foo> can be?  Is it just a part of the total distance of the cable?
>
>RG-58 running along a baseboard           T connector
>------------------------------------------T-------------------------
>                                          |
>                                          |
>                                          | strand <foo>
>                                          |
>                                          |
>                                        -----
>               Some luser's computer.   |   |
>                                        |   |
>                                        -----

Zero.

-- Walt Haas    haas@ski.utah.edu