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From: howell@ecsvax.UUCP (Doc A. Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Thinwire ethernet: Question about drop cables
Message-ID: <4804@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 16:54:28 GMT
References: <4491@june.cs.washington.edu> <13364@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: Can anyone given some specs for drop cables?



  If some people have done this and feel sure it works, could someone
provide some basic specs on their configuration. Total distance of drops,
number of drops per segment, total lengths of thick or thin media, type
of equipment used. This type of information would help me out greatly.

  I currently have a new building that should have about 20 stations
per thinwire segment. I plan to use the new 3Com multiconnect box as
the ethernet driver. I have a wallplate with 1 (read that ONE) BNC
connector in each office. Worse, I have the thin coax wired in a star,
not a bus. I inherited this problem, and now I have to make it work.

  Plan 1 is to rewire the office clusters from the star to tie a group
of 10 or so offices together and then connect these to a multiconnect
thinwire driver.

  If drop cables work, then plan 2 will be to make short drops and tee
off the wallplate. My max segment distance shouldn't be more than 300 feet. 

  Plan 3 leave town if this doesn't work.