Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Nov 20 18:32:13 2000

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > Last I checked, 10base2 still has a distance advantage, perhaps enough
> > to matter for really large buildings.
>
> Yes, 185 metres instead of 100m -- and 10base5 will go to 500m. But you
> can do better and faster with fibre.

Yes, but if I'm not mistaken, the total length of a 10base2 segment is 185
meters. 10baseT is 100m for each run.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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