Re: Twinax and Balun's Wiring question

Art,

I too still have twinax consoles.  I have used twisted pair in the past (Cat
3 with baluns) and got burned by it even on a short run (< 25 feet).  I went
back to real twinax and the problems went away.  In a raised floor
environment the mainframers here seemed to manage breaking the connectors
off with their bus and tag stuff running to/from terminal controllers.  They
ain't broke my twinax yet!

My preference to this day is twinax for a console device.  If it is done
right, twinax is almost bullet proof!  :-)

Regards,

Mike Shaw

----- Original Message -----
From: Art Tostaine, Jr. <Art@link400.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 12:28 PM
Subject: Twinax and Balun's Wiring question


> I have a small AS/400 setup where all of the PC's are connected through
ethernet.
>
> I still have a twinax console (they can pry it from my cold dead fingers),
and I would like to wire
> it with cat 5 wiring.  I normally purchase a device like a Powerstar that
has one twinax in and 6
> RJ-45 out.  I don't want to purchase that for one twinax device.
>
> Can I just put a balun on the twinax wire out of the 400, connect that to
with a patch cord to an
> RJ-45 jack, then wire that to another RJ-45 jack elsewhere in the office?
The other end would be
> identical, using RJ-45 jack, patch cable to balun, twinax to the terminal?
>
> Can I go through the patch panel instead of hard wiring from one jack to
the other?
>
> The total distance involved is about 15 feet.  I know I could run twinax
through the wall, but that
> would be too easy.
>
> Art Tostaine, Jr.
> CCA, Inc.
> Jackson, NJ 08527
>
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