3Mb Ethernet

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Apr 23 09:59:55 2001

--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
> Arcnet is AFAIK 2 Mb and another protocol without relation to Ethernet.
> Ain't that so?

Yes. ARCnet is another protocol, entirely. It is a token-passing protocol,
with either a star topology (a simple "hub" is four BNC connectors connected
together with maybe a resistor per connector thrown in. More machines than
that and you have to use an active hub), or, later, an RS-485-based twisted
pair interconnection scheme.

I don't recall the bitrate, but it's much less than 10Mb.

I have some ARCnet cards for PC and one for the Amiga 500. It was popular
for a while for early LAN parties because when DOOM came out, there was IPX
support and ARCnet cards were cheap and easy to set up.

-ethan



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