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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Ethernet between buildings (was Maximum Ethernet length)
Message-ID: <15470@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 15:04:22 GMT
References: <10315@well.UUCP> <27196@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>>However, many people have blissfully installed thick between buildings
>>(including me) without any problem whatsoever.

In article <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter..bellcore.com
(Phil R. Karn) writes:
>Your bliss may end the next time you have a nearby lightning strike. For a
>few microseconds, you may find yourself with a 10kv potential difference
>between your building grounds. Ask the network people at the University
>of Delaware.

We lost a few transceivers this way once.  Lightning is funny stuff,
though; only three out of >15 went out, with no particular pattern to
it.  Fortunately, the new building did eventually go up and we moved
back out of the gymnasium....

(And people wonder where I found time to work out :-) )
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