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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 > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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