Re: Display station connection question/issue?

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IIRC, the problem with daisy chaining with baluns and twisted pair is 
that a balun is a transformer, and each balun takes a little bit of 
power from the signal.  Since the devices are just tapped across the 
twinax jacks in parallel (there's no signal regeneration), the number 
of baluns on a single link makes a big difference.

As someone said, they've been successful with daisy chaining baluns 
in a lab situation.  We always had mixed results in that situation, 
so we ended up with several 6 and 10 foot genuine twinax cables to 
wire conference rooms and such.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com



>>It's been a long time since I had to deal with this, so if someone can tell
>>me what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>>Configuration
>>
>>DSP01-----Twinax cable-----PRT01--Balun--network
>>cable--Balun--DSP02--Balun--network cable--Balun--DSP03
>>
>>What happens is that DSP03 gets a signon but DSP02 does not, it stays Vary
>>On Pending... All other devices are ok.
>>  Any ideas or is this not possible?
>>
>>I have double and triple checked addresses, they are ok.  Have swapped
>>network cables with ones I know work and same result. Swapped baluns with
>>ones I know work, no diff....
>>
>>Mark Allen
>>Director of MIS
>>Fast Friends, Inc.
>>(601) 888-4392 ext. 13
>>www.fast-friends.com

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