28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
7:27 a.m.
Anyway, with 10 base T, there may be a dozen cable
coming out from the
room where the bub is to other machines in the house. With 10 base 2,
there's normally only one coax cable.
Comprimise! The hamfests these days seem to be littered with Cabletron
10base2 hubs (miniMMACs). Anyway, at work we have been ripping out all of
the 10base2 and replacing it with 10baseT. We have had too many problems
with the coax - problems causing whole segments to go away, and other
nasty things. Anyway, a great deal of the old stuff is going home with me.
I think I may now have the greatest collection of 10base2 transcievers
ever assembled (kind of like that guy that collects floppy jackets).
Anyway, the hubs can fail.
Not as much as 10base2 old cabling!
Since when have any _classic_ computers had 100Mbps
network ports? Heck,
I'm looking out for any original 3Mbps stuff :-)
Fibre! (real networking)
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net