Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amdahl!amdcad!rpw3 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 Lines: 22 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 UUCP: {amdcad,fortune,sun}!redwood!rpw3 ATTmail: !rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 627 26th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403