Thicknet (was Re: BBS's)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Nov 23 18:56:40 2000

On Nov 24, 0:00, Tony Duell wrote:

> I believe there is a balun-type thing that lets you use a piece of
> twisted pair cable in place of a piece of coax _for a 10base2 network_.
> The signals on the twisted pair are not 10baseT, and you can't use it as
> a converter. In particular if you want to link multiple machines together
> with twisted pair you need _2_ baluns at each machine (linked up to a BNC
> t-piece) and 2 pieces of twisted pair cable, one from the 'previous'
> machine and one to the 'next' machine, just as you would with coax.

Thanks, Tony. That's what I thought. In fact, at least one of the
catalogues actually says their baluns are only to carry 10b2 over twisted
cable.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 18:56:40 GMT

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