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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: ANC connectors
Keywords: testing and alternatives
Message-ID: <22961@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 88 11:40:50 GMT
References: <157@ernie.NECAM.COM>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <157@ernie.NECAM.COM> animal@ernie.NECAM.COM (Alan R. Silverman)
writes:
+---------------
| Connecting two transceivers to a short length of cable can be expensive
| and a pain in the butt.  A minimum length backbone cable is required.
| I don't know the length, but its around a hundred or so feet.
+---------------

This is *NOT* true! There is no minumum length requirement at all! Even the
2.5 meter transceiver spacing rule is needed only on long cables with dozens
of transceivers. You can safely put 2-10 (or so) transceivers on as small
a piece of cable as will fit (say, 6 inches per transceiver). It's done all
the time.  (Just remember, though, you still need terminators at both ends.)


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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