Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:2813 comp.misc:6097 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!hubey From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc Subject: Re: Installing Thinwire Ethernet Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 00:43:54 GMT References: <1381@ndmath.UUCP> <179@usna.MIL> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 52 In article <179@usna.MIL> tsmith@usna.MIL (Tim G. Smith ) writes: > In article <1381@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes: > >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 > > The cost and praticality all depends on your viewpoint. The major cost > of running a single thin wire to each office always seems to be the > multi-port repeaters (I call them MPRs but I am told many folks call > them DEMPRs). MPRs are not cheap- How expensive is NOT CHEAP?? How many ports ?? Can you please provide adress or tel # ?? We are/might be doing things along similar lines and we need some idea as to cost etc. > Cabletron has a box called an MMAC that significantly reduces the cost > per port of using MPRs to star wire. CAn you please provide more data ?? on Cabletron MMAC etc. Thank you. > >I suppose you could put in a wallplate with two BNC connectors and install > >a short jumper when the outlet isn't in use. When you connected a computer > >you would run cable from one connector, to the T on the back of the computer > >and back to the other connector on the wall plate. I'm sure there must be > >a better way than this though. Anybody got any good ideas? > Maybe the AMP wall outlets that some other folks mentioned will do the > trick for you if you absolutely, positively can't star wire. Are there any gadgets that will automatically provide the terminator impedance when a workstation is disconnected ?? > good luck, > Tim Smith (formerly of the US Naval Academy- > and still reading news there) > US mail:US Army, BRL E-mail: > SLCBR-SE internet:tsmith@brl.mil > Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 21005-5066 uucp :...!uunet!brl!tsmith > MaBell :(301)278-6678 (or 6808) > Autovon: 298-6678 > Mark -- hubey@OSultrix.montclair.edu hubey@pilot.njin.net hubey@apollo.montclair.edu VOICE: 201-893-5269