28 Jul
2001
28 Jul
'01
1:26 a.m.
According to Shawn T. Rutledge:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:03:02PM +0100, Tony Duell
wrote:
Actually, they are not hubs, they are ethernet repeaters. I have a
DEC one litting in the lab right now, but I can't imagine what I might
do with it. The electricity it would use in a year is more than enough
to pay for a 100baseT switch.
bill
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It's better to think of the 'hub' as
being distributed in the 10base2
transceivers (the modules that connect between the AUI port and the
Well I have seen hubs to which coax is connected. Some were probably
arcnet, but weren't coax hubs ever used for thinnet? Maybe to boost
the signal and get past the length limitation, or maybe to isolate
"problem" branches so they don't interfere with other branches?