Denys writes:

>It has been my experience that out-of-spec cables will give you more 
>trouble, of the phantom and weird kind, than anything else.  You might
want 
>to look at repeaters and other signal boosting techniques.

Unfortunately, these cables are in conduit in the manufacturing plant.  
There is no place for a repeater/hub, except for the rafter trusses 
30 feet up.  However, we will probably run a 10BaseFL cable to an 
office at the opposite end of the plant with a hub there and run 
10BaseT cables of the proper length to the various machines.

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