8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
8:12 p.m.
Jason McBrien wrote:
On 8/7/06, Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Understood. I used 10Base2 as an interconnect scheme for some
process control equipment (where daisy-chaining cable is
inifinitely preferable to having to locate another piece
of gear -- hub/switch) but avoided the T's and BNC's
for exactly that reason.
At home, I rarely find problems with the 2 10Base2 networks
here. But, they are small and have few enough nodes that
even if a problem materializes it is more often than not
a cable that I unplugged to move a piece of gear :-(
Well, if your boxes will only run 10Mb/s, 10Base2
is a *cabling*
win if you have a lot of boxes in a small area -- since you can
daisy chain them instead of having to make room for a hub/switch
*and* N cables ... :-/
Yep, for a smallish network it isn't bad. Unfortunatly I inherited two labs
of about 80 PCs daisy chained together. It seemed like every time a user
brushed against a coax cable half the segment would go down, then you'd get
to trace out which cable went flaky. Sometimes the cable would go flaky
overnight, just for the fun of it.