7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
8:25 p.m.
Jason McBrien wrote:
Nope, I'm 99% sure the RJ45 cable is not a regular
CAT4/CAT5 style ethernet
connector, since I have some of the same Asante adapter dongles with RJ45
jacks on the end of them (IE the AUI->RJ45 connector fits into a box, that
has another RJ45 jack on it that's the ethernet interface.)
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?
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 ... :-/ 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 :> )