Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!hatch
From: hatch@wasatch.utah.edu (Corey Hatch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: RG58 C/U vs ThinWire Ethernet?
Message-ID: <1927@wasatch.utah.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 15:00:54 GMT
References: <1026@draken.nada.kth.se> <802@helios.toronto.edu> <13099@ut-emx.UUCP>
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In article <13099@ut-emx.UUCP>, bud@ut-emx.UUCP (C. E. "Bud" Spurgeon) writes:
> 
> From Belden cable RG58A/U is P/N 8259.  It has a cellular polyethelyne
> dialectric, a nominal impedance of 50 ohms, a stranded center
> conductor, and a propagation rate of 78% of light.


You mean Belden 8219, not 8259.  Your above parameters are correct for the
8219.  Belden 8259 has a velocity prop of 66%c and has a solid polyethylene
dielectric (but is also classified as RG-58A/U).

Belden 8219 is the better cable.

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