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Subject: Re: FastPath vs. StarController?
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Date: 20 May 89 16:44:57 GMT
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Reply-To: mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin)
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In article <3775@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	For a couple of years, we've been growing our PhoneNet network in
>dribs and drabs, gleefully ignoring configuration rules...
>...
>Today, we connected another 300' branch and broke the network.
>...
>but I'd guess a total of about 2000'.
>Roy Smith, System Administrator
>Public Health Research Institute

As I recall from the Farallon network book, PhoneNet can extend to 4000',
but they recommend that at about 2000' you buy a repeater.  We are also
running a PhoneNet type of system here.  We used PhoneNets cabling
instructions to run a trunk cable, but we are using DataSpec's ModuNet
connectors as the main connectors.

We also had a subnet disappear on ours, and our net was may 1200'.  We found
that although the Farallon book states that the first connector off the
trunk should be a PhoneNet connector, however as I have said, we were losing
sub-networks.  We instead tried the ModuNet with no success, but when we put
an AppleTalk connector as the first, and whatever following, we were
complete again.

You might want to try this, other wise Farallon has a repeater as does
TOPS.  I haven't looked into the repeater situation in the market before, so
these are the only two that I know of, and I don't know which if either will
work nor which is better.  Does anyone out there know anything more?

Mike.

Mike Temkin, Systems Administrator
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