Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!camb.com!bruce From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Thick or Thin Ethernet? Message-ID: <1991Jan29.023522.39514@camb.com> Date: 29 Jan 91 07:35:22 GMT References: <3832@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc. Lines: 28 In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > > I have *far* fewer problems with well-made BNC cable ends than with > those infernal slidey-clippy bent sheet metal things that thick very true > If you decide you must go with thick transceiver cables, at least get > some of the modification kits to retrofit them with positive > screwdowns. If you must use tranceiver cable at all, use the 'office' grade that is almost as thin as thin-net coax, and that 1) has higher loss so it can't be terribly long, but most important: 2) is so limp that the flimsy slide latches are adequate to hold it in place! If you 'own' lots of tranceivers using the fairly standard AMP vampire tap head, buy new heads to convert to BNC. I prefer the ones with a single BNC rather than the ones with the integral T and 2 BNCs, so an external T is necessary. Then removal from the line is easy without trashing others on that segment. AMP tranceiver heads: (I think the BNC ones are about $17 - bought 'right') vampire 228752-1 BNC - T 221918-1 BNC single 222455-1 ( best choice for thin-net use) N - T 221914-1 (N is the connector at the end of Ether-HOSE)