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From: kbrown@irs1.UUCP (Ken Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Need help with a Novell network question
Message-ID: <239@irs1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 16:53:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: irs1.239
Posted: Sun Jun 21 16:53:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 05:44:59 EDT
Reply-To: kbrown@irs1.UUCP (Ken Brown)
Organization: Data Resources Inc., Washington, DC
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I have found myself in the position of trying to purchase a PC network for
a client in another city, dealing by long distance with a vendor in that
city.  The network will consist of 8 workstations and an AT clone for a
server.  The vendor wants to install a Novell system which is fine, but
he insists that the hardware has to be ETHERNET boards with coaxial cabling.
The price of the boards is not bad (about $400 each) but the cost of
the coaxial cabling ($3-$4 per foot) is really hiking the cost of the
system.

I know very little about networks so I am not able to tell whether what
is telling me is really true or if that is just the system they
prefer to work with.  My question is, is it possible to run a Novell
system using twisted pair wiring with the appropriate network cards?
The longest run in the system should be no more that 40 ft. if that
makes any difference.  Also, if we forced them to switch to a 3Com system
could that be run over twisted pair?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Ken Brown

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