[comp.dcom.lans] Novel Certified This Ethernet

gt0652b@prism.gatech.EDU (gt0652b gt0652b gt0652b Josh Guttman) (01/23/91)

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I am greatly confused about the compostition of RG-58 cable. I have
recently installed a 5 node office network using thin ethernet or
RG-58. The first cable I used was Novel Certified rg-58 cable. It
had one hard copper wire in the middle surrounded by braided wire on 
the outside. This cable worked great and made adding ethernet connecters a 
breeze. But, when I needed more cable to add another node to the network, 
I received cable that was highly inadequate. It was also Novell certified
except it had soft braided wire on the inside instaed of the hard copper
wire. This mad it impossible to thread the center cable throught to hole
in the ethernet connector. Is there something I am doing wrong or is
it just that I have the wrong cable? I can't see any use for ethernet
cable that is too flimsy to install.

Thanks in Advance

Josh Guttman
gt0652b@prism.gatech.edu

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johnston@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston) (01/27/91)

    Josh,

     You just have to make sure that you order solid wire RG-58 cable, since
you can order both solid wire (with respect to the inner wire) and stranded
wire.....
     if they gave you the wrong cable, take it back, but there is both RG-58
solid AND stranded cable.....


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