Subject: Re: Need a favor
To: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/15/2001 15:44:44
yes. but you'll probably spend a fortune on your mux, much more than
on extra runs of cables, for most of the distances you'd plan to go. 
if it gets longer distance, or a limitation on where the cables can go or
fit, then it might be worth it. 

isildur

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Vance Dereksen wrote:

> 
> But if the cable can still handle 30GHz bandwidth, you can take a whole
> crapload of ether signals and multiplex them, right?
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > >  good quality thick is
> > > absolutely awesome though.. it is almost an insult to just run a lousy 
> > > 5MHz ethernet signal over it when it can handle a 30 GHz signal.. hehehe
> > 
> > Actually, that's 20 MHz. Ethernet is manchester coded, 10 MBit/s, which
> > means you have 20 MHz.
> > 
> > 	Johnny
> > 
> > Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
> >                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
> > email: bqt@update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
> > pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> > 
> 
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