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- From: tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston)
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- Subject: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
- Message-ID: <728078512.AA00323@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:28:01
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- > Considering that the specified limit for a thin
- > segement is 185 meters,
- > I doubt that any of us want to. We've got a total of
- > about 4,000 feet of
- > thin coax bridged via NetWare servers and dedicated
- > bridges (PCBridge),
- > and I've strained mightily to keep each segement under
- > the limit. Oddly
- > enough, my network is quite reliable. How's yours?
-
- Alright .. it's quite fast (90% of top speed), but you guessed it, we get drop outs (lost workstation connections) about once a week. :-)
-
- > (Oh, BTW; I've heard of a thin LAN that had over 1.2KM
- > of cable, but for
- > *some* reason, performance wasn't real good....)
-
- Yeah, funny that!
-
- Cheers, Ben
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