Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: how to connect thin wire segements to thick wire backbone
Message-ID: <1991May13.170657.4786@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 17:06:57 GMT
References: <1991May13.085357.4785@uniwa.uwa.oz>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May13.085357.4785@uniwa.uwa.oz> doug@psy.uwa.oz.au (Doug Robb) writes:
>    Or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether, is there 
>	a better way to connect each thin wire segment to the
>    thick wire?  Do I need any more hardware? 

The only way to connect thin to thick is end to end.  You can't connect
a thinwire segment to the middle of a thickwire segment.  Ethernet cable
is a bus, not a tree -- it can't branch.  The only way to hook cables
together at other than their ends is with a repeater of some flavor.

The simplest way to do what you want is to forget the central thick segment
entirely and run the ends of the thin segments to a single multiport
repeater at some central point.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry