Chris, thought you might find this useful for all sorts of Adlib users, it
was a posting on the Museum Computer Group list.
Philippa Tinsley
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From: Michael Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 08 July 1999 12:25
Subject: Tinybridge
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>Ay up my ducks! (As we say here in Nottingham.)
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>Just thought I'd report our success with an interesting new device: the
>Tinybridge hinted at in my last report to the MCG Newsletter. We've now
>got these little (match-box-sized) devices running a LAN connection to
>our Museum of Costume & Textiles. They work like a charm and give us a
>10Mb connection with a less than 1ms ping. They use cables from our
>private internal telephone line, which meant we didn't have to dig up
>the road to install a new LAN cable (at huge and unaffordable expense)
>and we don't have to pay any line rental as all internal calls are free.
>We did have to fork out for the 2 bridges @ 400 quid apiece, a small bit
>of extension work to the telephone cabling to get a line around the
>switchboard and into the Costume Mus. documentation room (another 100),
>and a 100 quid or so install fee. Other than that there was a bit of
>small change for a couple of cross-over fly leads, and a 4-point
>mini-hub to allow an extra line to our server from the office containing
>the telephone termination point at our end. The system uses four
>telephone wires (I think there are 6 in a standard telephone cable). It
>only works across a short distance (a few hundred meters), but that's
>more than adequate for our needs. It's a lot better than the link that
>City IT have been promising us for 4 years: a 64k link through the City
>Network. Not only does it run faster, but it took just over a month from
>inception to installation. Slightly better than the City's 4 years of
>utter inanition. And they would've charged us rental!!
>
>For more info try http://www.rad.com/products/family/tinybrg/sheet.htm
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>Mick
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>Michael P. Cooper
>Registrar, Nottingham Museums & Galleries
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