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From: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu (J Q Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Maximum Ethernet length (actually lightning)
Message-ID: <164@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 89 15:59:22 GMT
References: <10315@well.UUCP> <27196@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: University of Oregon
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In article <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com>, Phil R. Karn writes:
>> However, many
>>people have blissfully installed thick between buildings (including
>>me) without any problem whatsoever.
> Your bliss may end the next time you have a nearby lightning strike.
Kent and I agree with Phil in principal.  In practice, you might be lucky.
At Cornell we installed a thickwire Ethernet between 5 buildings in 1984.
Ithaca NY has lots of lightning storms, but I don't think they've blown
a transceiver yet (I left before they realized the hole I'd helped dig for
them :-).