On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:15:18 -0600 Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote: Thicknet is about the same as RG213. So: Yes. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

On 12/29/06, Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote: Hmm... I don't have an _urgent_ need, nor do I need 100m of cable, but I have been kinda, sorta keeping an eye out for a couple dozen meters of thicknet. I have a few vampire taps, a couple of intrusive taps, and just this past (Austral) Winter, found a manual cable penetration tool and some tap pins NIB when cleaning out the Science building at the South Pole. I have a number of machines (VAXen, mostly) that are for, as they say, "hysterical rasins". I could probably get away with a DEC AUI "hub" (DELNI?) rather than drill or cut the cable for traditional thicknet, but I think it'd be cool to have up to 1/2 dozen machine on "etherhose". It's 50 ohm, just like thinnet (which uses different diameter cable and different intrusive connectors, but the same value for termination as thicknet). I don't know for a fact that anyone ever directly coupled a thicknet segment to a thinnet segment, but I _think_ it should work with an N-to-BNC adapter, same impedance and all. I'd expect it would work better with conservative node placement and overall cable length, but for setups that avoid boundary and limit conditions (i.e. - 95% of max thicknet length and the like), I'd go in expecting it all to work. -ethan