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                                                            Exhibit 5

                                October 2, 1996


Allin Communications Corporation
300 Greentree Commons
381 Mansfield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15220

Gentlemen:

We are acting as counsel for Allin Communications Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the registration by the
Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to 2,300,000
shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the
"Common Stock"), to be offered to the public under Registration Statement
No. 333-10447 on Form S-1, as amended, relating to the offering (the
"Registration Statement").

We have examined originals and copies certified or otherwise identified
to our satisfaction of such records of the Company, agreements and other
instruments, certificates of public officials and of officers of the Company
and such other documents as we have deemed necessary for the basis for the
opinions hereinafter expressed.

On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

1.  The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in
    good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware; and

2.  The Common Stock, when issued and delivered as contemplated by the 
    Registration Statement, will be duly authorized and validly issued,
    fully paid and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to being named in the Registration Statement and in the
Prospectus which constitutes a part thereof as counsel for the Company who
have passed upon legal matters in connection with the Common Stock to which
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus relate. We further consent
to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

ECKERT SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOTT

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