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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NuvoTech EasyNet Connectors
Message-ID: <7777@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 15:16:00 GMT
References: <224@doodah.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
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In article <224@doodah.UUCP>, Kurt VanderSluis writes:
> Has anyone else tried the EasyNet connectors from NuvoTech.  [...]
> I asked NuvoTech is they would send me a couple
> for evaluation. [...] First,
> they were obious rip-offs of Farallon's PhoneNet connectors and b) they
> didn't work with our wiring scheme.  We connect our Macs over Type I wire
> to a central wiring closet using the Farallon Star Controller.  When I
> connected the EasyNet's my network connection went away, zones, servers 
> everything.  I couldn't even see the LW next to me.  When I just 
> connected my one Mac (II) to the  LW, I could see the LW.  Has anyone else
> tried these things?  Any success?  Any thought about ripoffs?

Well, Farallon connectors seem to want to use the yellow and black pairs to
transmit and receive, rather than the red and green.  The reason for this is
so that it will work with newer telephone systems that use the red and the
green pairs only.  I wouldn't be surprised if the EasyNet connectors were
using the red and green.

If you want to get inventive and like to play, here's something to try: swap
the green and red with the yellow and the black before it goes into the wall.
I'm using a Farallon connector and the rest of the world isn't.  When I made
up a little adaptor, my Farallon connector worked fine.  (Which is good
because it easier to find long telephone wires then it is to piece together
short AppleTalk cables.  Especially up the sides of buildings...)
--
"It's gonna take money..."               Peter Merchant (merchant@dartvax.UUCP)