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From: m-liu@eastend.columbia.edu (Micky Liu)
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Subject: Ethernet Repeater Question
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Date: 13 Feb 89 03:16:37 GMT
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I have a small thinwire ethernet that I would like to extend from one
site to another.  What I was envisioning was something like:


=================[]------------------------------------[]================
ethernet           twisted-pair                          ethernet

I don't need to be able to use the signal on the twisted-pair, I just
need to get the signal on both my ethernet segments, what I need to
know is what type of devices the [] are...  Are there such things and
what are their capacities.

Ideally the repeater will carry the entire bandwidth across as opposed
to going from 10M/sec to 56K/sec...  Am I dreaming?  Secondly is there
some method of calculating the amount of traffic that you need to
support on your segments?  We are running some intense database
programs across the segments, what is the ideal bandwidth?  Can I
exist with the lower bandwidth?

Thanx!

Micky Liu

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