Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Fri Aug 31 14:25:49 CDT 2018


On 08/31/2018 01:07 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
> Yeah, I forget what the original allowed length was for drop cables, 
> but I seem to remember it striking me as quite long! A few feet of CAT5 
> (or even better, STP) has a lot of wiggle room :P

I think I've seen reports of multi AUI port taps.  Correct?

Could you have one multi-port tap in a computer lab (of 5 ~ 20 machines) 
and connect them all to the single tap?  Sort of like what is done with 
10BaseT cables to a hub in the room?



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