--- Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
> > Last I checked, 10base2 still has a distance advantage, perhaps enough
> > to matter for really large buildings.
>
> Yes, 185 metres instead of 100m -- and 10base5 will go to 500m. But you
> can do better and faster with fibre.
I've already got fibre - a pair of StarLAN 10Base-T to 10Base-FL media
converters (old and huge, but they work) and a pair of more modern
10Base-FL transceivers. I have a single fibre pair run up the walls
from the basement to the computer room on the second floor and my eventual
goal is to lay fibre between my farmhouse and my quonset hut.
I even have _one_ fiber long-haul modem - it looks like a DB25 - RJ11/RJ45
shell, but has one ST connector on it. Over a single fiber it multiplexes
a full duplex 9600 baud signal and a second full duplex 1200 baud signal that
can be used for flow control or an additional, low-speed channel. A friend
of mine has its mate and if he ever finds it, I'll probably use it to monitor
some console port on a PDP-11 in the quonset hut. Maybe I'll build a 20Ma
to RS-232 converter and run an ASR-33 over it. :-)
But I still want a piece of thicknet on my network, just for the amusement
value. The fibre is for "gee whiz" value.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Nov 21 2000 - 09:40:18 GMT