Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!meccts!pwcs!dennisg From: dennisg@pwcs.UUCP (Dennis Grittner) Newsgroups: net.lan,net.dcom Subject: Re: thin Ethernet advice wanted Message-ID: <210@pwcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 09:24:39 EDT Article-I.D.: pwcs.210 Posted: Thu Aug 7 09:24:39 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 07:17:03 EDT References: <436@svax.cs.cornell.edu> Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.UUCP (Dennis Grittner) Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.lan:1610 net.dcom:2072 In article <436@svax.cs.cornell.edu> jqj@systems.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson) writes: >I'm planning Ethernet wiring for a new building (about 150 stations). >I'd been planning a traditional scheme with thick backbone+xcver in >hallway raceways and drops into each office, similar to my existing >offices. However, I am investigating using thin Ethernet instead. > I would like responses on this to be posted to the net. I have similar questions about thin ethernet and mixing thick and think as well as the specific devices for doing this AND is any/all of this a good idea. Thanks in advance.. Dennis Grittner Public Works Computer Services 612-298-4402 Room 700, 25 W. 4th St. St. Paul, Minn. 55102 I must have been asleep for twenty years - - Ronald ( Bonzo ) Reagan is president? - - Rip von Grittner - 1986