On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I have had 10base2 up to 300 metres in the early days when the sparky who
> was brought in to run the cable didn't know what he was doing and thought
> "I'd better leave some slack in the roof space, just in case". It might
> have worked with power cables, but once the segment started to get loaded
> the collisions weren't being propgated fast enough so down the network
> went. I put a TDR onto the segment and swore never to employ that sparky
> again.
Ouch. That woulda been ugly!
The case where I got up to 227 metres was extremely specialised - two
workstations at one end, two at the other, seperate segment off the server
- grand total of 5 workstations. Oh, and the line drivers on the LAN cards
we used {stuffed if I can remember the brand now} were amazingly above
spec.
Collisions were extremely low, thankfully, or it'da never worked. When the
guy who replaced me tried to stick another 20(!) workstations at the other
end, despite being told not to, it all fell into a screaming heap.
DaZZa
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