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From: eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Using 48.? ohm RG 62A/U cable for Thin Ethernet?
Keywords: IBM COAX, Thin Ethernet, Cheapernet, Thinnet...
Message-ID: <3346@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 18 May 88 16:21:04 GMT
References: <2471@ritcsh.UUCP>
Reply-To: eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In article <2471@ritcsh.UUCP> steveg@ritcsh.UUCP (Steve Good -- ISC) writes:
>Here at RIT we have had the THICK Ethernet installed for some time.  We had
>also been using (but are slowly phasing out) the IBM 327x type equipment
>tied to controllers with RG 62 A/U cable.  I had always thought that this
>cable was 50 Ohms, but after looking in a Belden catalog, the specs show
>that the cable is in fact 48 Ohms...

Look at your catalog again.  RG62 is 93 ohm cable.  It won't work.

jim warner