sid@linus.UUCP (Sid Stuart) (06/16/84)
I need to install an ethernet LAN within four different buildings. It looks like I will have to use repeaters to do so. Does anyone have any words of advice they would like to share with me? I am a neophyte when it comes to the ethernet. I do know that for the installation I want, I will have to use at least one if not two repeaters. But I don't know anything about them. Who makes the best? What do they cost? Are they a lot of trouble or do they work? Can I put a Sun disk server on one cable segment and a diskless node on a different segment with a repeater in between them? Can the repeater really support 500 meters of cable? Am I pushing any limit by having a 1500 meter long ethernet setup? What are the advantages of remote connectors? Has anybody looked at the new optical fiber ethernet connectors? How do they rate? Do I really have to tear up a dollar bill for every ethernet node that I have? Is there a Santa Claus? Yours in perplexity, sid at linus