That's 2 votes for Breezecom! I've used there stuff before, it is good.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mircea Ciocan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:21 AM
> To: Chris Knipe
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: on topic this time :)
>
> Damn, the time pass so f...in' fast!
> Seems like yesterday that the tick ethernet ( yellow) cable was the
> standard thing for back-bones.
> From my experience the distance if Officialy 500meters but I have
> segmens of more than 600m but with only one station at each end.
> The speed is standard 10Mbit/s Ethernet and every not crap hub will
> offer you an AUI interface.
> The cable has 2x50ohm terminators at the ends and you connect the
> cable
> to the card or hub with some kind of insertion conectors with
> transceviers that are on the same case ( the AUI net card doesn't have
> its own line transcevier), friendly called "vampire transcevier".
> Up until 5 x 500m cable segments where able to be conected with line
> amplifiers ( small uninteligen boxes that some times were powered using
> the cable itself) without routers or switches, giving you a max dist of
> 2,5 Km ( ever wondered why a typicall fibre segmat has this max lenght
> ).
> The solution is rock solid and the cable is also resistent to about
> ever abuse imagined, trust me ;).
>
> But, if you want to try a radio sollution try
> http://www.breezecom.com/, thei equppment is wonderfull and they operate
> on spread spectrum in the 2,5GHz range that should be unrestricted if
> your contry is member of ITU.
>
> HTH
>
> Mircea C.
>
>
> Chris Knipe wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >however there is also a quite old and unusal(in Sweden anyways)
> > >type of cable... 10Base5 (Thick Coax)..
> > >the "official" limit is 500 meters (1640 ft) with DIX/AUI connector..
> > >(could be hard to find...guessing)
> >
> > Yes, that would be the "weird" not so well known IEEE that I was talking
> > about :) sorry that my cable distances is a little rusted at the
> moment...
> >
> > If I am not mistaken, it would also be limited to 1MB/Sec over the
> cable..
> > :) I thought about using that aswell, could be an fairly interesting
> way
> > to connect the bunch together... Overall distance still going to be a
> > problem though...
> >
> > Seems to me I have to get my hands on some ppl in SA and find out bout
> our
> > telco's monopoly and radio ethernet...
> >
> > Regards
> > Chris Knipe
> > Cel: (083) 430 8151
> > Freelance Internet Developer, Consultant, Administrator & Speaker
> >
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