Re: [chat] Termination of FO cable

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Crossfire wrote:

> 
> Speaking of Fibre, anybody know where I can pick up some FDDI gear at
> a reasonable price?

http://www.netgear.com.au?

http://www.netgear.com.au/categories.asp?xrp=3&yrp=8
Their FS509 is about $2,000 {:-)

> 
> My little DECStation in 'berra has an FDDI card in it doing
> nothing. :)

Now, for something reasonable for this (guessing 10MB/s), you need to be
lucky at the auctions, or hunt around for one of those FO to AUI
adapters. 

Is FDDI the square push-in plug?


Does anyone know of a pre-used net boxen person in Aus? I used DSB
(http://www.dsb.com.au) for some of my second hand PC HW stuff , but I'm
looking for someone who specialises in networking gear.

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