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Thanks for your reply. I'm going ahead with it soon. Your website is quite helpful as well. Thanks, Luc

Hello, Due to a recent success in collecting process data from a PLC, I have been tasked with connecting most of our PLC's on a network to do the same thing. Our company is going through some major changes on our manufacturing floor so we will be moving machines around quite a bit until we get the optimum set up. So at this moment flexibility is the key. I have looked at DH485 network and it's price is nice but the hardwire lines would be a nightmare. My boss and I are leaning toward the ethernet approach but the hardwired lines would also be very bad. We currently would like to put one 5/03 two 5/04's 3 micro 1500's and a few micro 1000's on the network using 1746-NET-ENI's I guess one question is. Can you use off the shelf wireless nework equiptment like linksys to connect them together? Will it be a problem to have two network cards in one PC and be connected to both our companies network and the PLC network at the same time? (my IT department thinks it will be, although that doesn't seem to make any sense) It would be nice considering I'd like to save the data to our company's network drives. One I get the basic plan in place I'm sure I'll have more questions than this. Thanks, Luc