whna@cgcha.uucp (Heinz Naef) (01/17/89)
A group of people using ~20 Mac's on an AppleTalk Personal Network will move in a new building which will be equipped with IBM Type 1 shielded twisted pair cabling. The Mac's will be scattered all over the eight floors of the building. After studying the AppleTalk brochure, it seems that even though there may be up to 32 devices attached to one network, BUT the total cable length shouldn't exceed 300 Meters (1000 feet). If you imagine a star-shaped wiring scheme in a large building, this diameter may be easily exhausted with 3 stations - even if they are in neighboring rooms! Is there a better solution which would allow to attach the Mac's to the IBM cabling while maintaining the full AppleTalk functionality transparently? (I. e. the user doesn't recognize that anything changed in the attachment?) Any comments are gratefully appreciated. Thanks, and best regards, Heinz Naef, c/o CIBA-GEIGY AG, R-1032.5.58, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland Internet: whna%cgch.uucp@uunet.uu.net - Phone: (+41) 61 697 26 75 BITNET: whna%cgch.uucp@cernvax.bitnet - Fax: (+41) 61 697 32 88 UUCP: cgch!whna