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From: olds@3comvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cheapernet query
Message-ID: <677@3comvax.3Com.COM>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 21:31:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.677
Posted: Thu May 14 21:31:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:35:46 EDT
References: <351@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <3044@ecsvax.UUCP> <671@3comvax.3Com.COM> <993@oliveb.UUCP>
Reply-To: olds@3comvax.UUCP (Chris Olds)
Distribution: world
Organization: 3Com Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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Keywords: connectors BNC N-series
Summary: Jerry is right

As Jerry Aguirre (jerry@oliveb.UUCP) so gently states, I screwed up. 

In article <993@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) writes:
>In article <671@3comvax.3Com.COM> I write:
...
>>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.

T DOES mean THIN in the equation above - I misread the manual I copied the
inequality from, and did not check what I wrote.

	Boy, is my face red!

	Chris Olds		olds@3Com.COM		or
				{sun,hplabs!oliveb}!3comvax!olds