ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz (Ian Hoyle) (06/27/89)
I have a whole lot of non-twisted, shielded, 6-core data cables running from
my machine room to many geographically dispersed offices which are
currently being used for connecting dumb terminals to our micom terminal
switch.
Can this type of cable successfully be used to support localtalk ?? (probably
using phonenet).
The intention is to connect some of these cables to an ethernet-localtalk
bridge which will then connect to our laboratory ethernet LAN. The distances
from the bridge (the Webster Multigate bridge has 4 localtalk ports ... plug
for a good aussie product here :-) to the various devices (mainly postscript
printers) vary from some 10's of metres to ~300 metres.
thanx,
ian
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