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From: todds@cognos.uucp (Todd Sandor)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cabling beteen BNC T-connector and workstation?!
Message-ID: <5660@faerie_queene.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 17:59:09 GMT
References: <3036@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: todds@cognos.UUCP (Todd Sandor)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <3036@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
+Are there any gurus who can comment on the legitimacy of
+attempting this?
+I'd gotten the impression that you were forced to attach the T directly to the
+workstation and that any extra length between the T and the machine would
+seriously degrade performance (by throwing off collision detection).

I'm got a guru on this, but can let you know that we had a Lan Analyzer
Vendor Salesman (no vendor name here), come in to show us a demo and he
tried to hook up his analyzer like this (I showed him the room and left
for a few minutes), and before I made it back to the room people were
complaining that something on their workstations was wrong, after some
checking I found he had done this, I unhooked it and then everything came
back up, bottom line is if do this it will bring down that thin-net cable
segment, or at least it happened to us.
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