8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
6:15 a.m.
On 8/7/06, Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net> wrote:
So you have a similar box for 10BaseT instead of 10Base2?
And, your "proof" is that such a box would NOT be necessary
if, in fact, the RJ45 from the Mac side was a real 10BaseT
interface?
That, and this:
http://pinouts.ru/Net/AAUI_pinout.shtml
Man I hated thinnet :)
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.
I know the machines that I have tethered
together with coax don't have quite the same
amount of cable-clutter
as the other twisted-pair machines... :-/ (sure would be nice to
have a small AUI<->802.11g adapter :> )