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From: lee@locus.com (Lee Slaughter)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: how to connect thin wire segements to thick wire backbone
Message-ID: <24384@dice.la.locus.com>
Date: 14 May 91 23:36:40 GMT
References: <1991May13.085357.4785@uniwa.uwa.oz> <1991May13.170657.4786@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991May13.170657.4786@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.
>
uh uh...we've done it. we have mostly thick and hooked up a
small net on thin to the thick using transceiver and fanout.


.....thin net.......transceiver.......fanout......thick net

or something like that. it worked fine. i can look up the
details, if you want. just have to be sure everything
(thin) is properly terminated, using a "T" on the
transceiver as well. (if i recall...)