Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_uswest.net>
Date: Tue Nov 21 18:27:40 2000

I plan to hang all the DEC machines off DELNIs (real ones :), with a
10baseT/AUI adapter to a 10/100 switch (not hub). That way my PCs can
talk to each other and the outside world at 100MBs, and the VAXes
don't have to listen to them. Why should me VAXes be interrupted by
the constant chatter of WIN98?

clint

PS Actually, I only have a single win 98 machine to run the scanner.
The remaining PCs run FreeBSD!

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > Do I have a point? I guess my point is I'm trying to get off 10Base2, why
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> > Hmmm... I'm moving towards 10Base2 and away from 10BaseT
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> Ah, I've never used anything but 10Base2 at home for stringing wires
> throughout the house. :-) ...with the exception of a few close
> machines connected to AUI cables and a DELNI-like hub. If I move to
> anything else, it will probably be the yellow cable with vampire taps.
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> > For older (classic) computers, the bus bandwidth won't support 100Mbps
> > ethernet, so you have to go with one of the 10Mbps standards (I'll ignore
> > the original 3Mbps.. :-)).
>
> ...not even for a couple of machines on a subnet just for fun? :-)
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