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From: jjb@wsu-cs.uucp (J. Brewster)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Thinwire Ethernet
Message-ID: <723@wsu-cs.uucp>
Date: 9 May 89 17:26:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jjb@cs.wayne.edu (J. Brewster)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Wayne State University
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In article <1381@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
@>I was thinking about a problem someone MUST have solved by now....if you
@>have a solution to this, let me know.
@>[...]
@>So, how can you wire 10-20 offices so they can all easily tap into the 
@>thinwire?  The installation has to be neet...no big loops of cable hanging
@>down from the ceeling...etc.  All the offices would have to be on the same
@>segment of thinwire...sending a seperate thinwire cable to each one isn't
@>practical because there are TO MANY offices.
@>
Well, one approach you could consider is a multiport repeater.
I don't have any experience with the thin ethernet version, so I can't
tell you whether or not you have to terminate the ports when not in use.
The DEC version is called a DEMPR (sp?) and allows a star topology from
the device.  

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