jaksa@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Robert Jaksa) (11/20/90)
Any suggestions on the best way to go from coax to twisted pair? Thanks, Rob -- | Robert P. Jaksa d@############ |333 Michigan State University | | Internet: jaksa@cpswh.cps.msu.edu # |333 Dept. of Computer Science | | Bitnet: JAKSA@MSUEGR # |333 A714 Wells Hall | | Usenet: ...uunet!frith!jaksa ######+333 East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 |
peiffer@cs.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer (The Net Guy)) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov20.142215.14456@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jaksa@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Robert Jaksa) writes: >Any suggestions on the best way to go from coax to twisted pair? If you are only interested in picking up a short run of Twisted Pair, I would like to recommend the use of a thin to Twisted Pair Balun. A local company makes these things, and the preliminary testing shows that it is excellent in terms of throughput vs errors. The cost is roughly 40-50$/pair. It is not a replacement for the 10BaseT standard, but it is a cheap way of bringing ethernet to a small run of Twisted Pair, and it will do as a temporary measure. Tim -- ----------- Tim Peiffer peiffer@cs.umn.edu or Computer Science Dept ..!rutgers!umn-cs!peiffer University of Minnesota
clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel) (11/27/90)
jaksa@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Robert Jaksa) writes: >Any suggestions on the best way to go from coax to twisted pair? We use 3Com's PairTaimers here at Claris to run one twisted pair line from their MultiConnect repeaters in a phone closet to clumps of Herman Miller cubes where from three to twelve Macs are connected to the coax. It seems to work fine here except for one set of cubes whoses twisted pair wiring seems to be incompatible for some reason. I believe we are using about 40 such pairs currently and the last time I checked the longest run of twisted pair was 220 feet. --Clay clay@claris.com