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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cheapernet query
Message-ID: <993@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 15:02:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.993
Posted: Wed May 13 15:02:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 04:26:18 EDT
References: <351@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <3044@ecsvax.UUCP> <671@3comvax.3Com.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre)
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Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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Keywords: connectors BNC N-series

In article <671@3comvax.3Com.COM> olds@3comvax.UUCP (Chris Olds) writes:
>What's wrong with using a BNC->N series adapter? It just screws onto the
>thick cable, and has a BNC connector on the other side. We use these here
>when we have to use thick cable or N-Series tranceivers, and have had no
>problems. The only restriction is that the inequality (3.28 * T) + E < 500
>must hold (T=thick cable length in meters, E=thin cable length in meters).
	    ^^^^^^^			    ^^^^^^
I am sure that you mean that T=THIN cable length and E=ETHERNET (regular
thick cable) length.  A thin ethernet segment is restricted to 185
meters max., thick is restricted to 500 meters.