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From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: how to connect thin wire segements to thick wire backbone
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:21:22 GMT
References: <1991May13.170657.4786@zoo.toronto.edu> <3021@kirk.nmg.bu.oz.au> <24391@oolong.la.locus.com> <2348@media03.UUCP> <1991Jun4.155323.6688@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun4.155323.6688@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> a_steiner@nwu.edu (Albert Steiner) writes:
>In article <2348@media03.UUCP> mad@media03.UUCP (Martin Admiraal) writes:
>> >no, somebody makes two port... damn... can't remember and too
>> >lazy to look thru all catalogs, but it is somebody we use around
>> >here...TCL, CentreCOM, IsoLan, ... if you really want to know and
>> >nobody else has positively responded let me know.
>INMAC sells repeaters made by Allied Telesis  (2 Thin, 2 thick ports).  
>They are working for us and less price than other solutions.
>
>-----------------------------------------
>a_steiner@nwu.edu
>Albert Steiner, Academic Computing and Networking,
>Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
>708-491-4056

We've had some problems with Allied Telesis equipment in this kind of
service (thick to thin connects) on an ethernet near the distance limit
causing lots of collisions.  We put a Cabletron unit in (admittedly
more expensive) and have had no more problems.




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