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From: dd@ariel.unm.edu
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Subject: Re: Need help with a Novell network question
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Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 17:47:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 27 17:47:13 1987
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In article <239@irs1.UUCP> kbrown@irs1.UUCP (Ken Brown) writes:

>...
>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.

	Shoot the vendor.  I assume you are using 3-Com E'net
	cards (to us, about $400), but this $3-4/ft figure sounds
	like TEFLON THICK ETHERNET, instead of the nice THIN
	ETHERNET, which is perfectly adequate in limited distance
	configurations.  It costs about $0.25 per foot for the 
	wire;  connectors are a little expensive, but not so
	expensive as to drive the price to $3/ft.

-Don Doerner
 University of New Mexico
 Computer and Information Resources and Technology

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