According to Shawn T. Rutledge:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:03:02PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > It's better to think of the 'hub' as being distributed in the 10base2
> > transceivers (the modules that connect between the AUI port and the
>
> Well I have seen hubs to which coax is connected. Some were probably
> arcnet, but weren't coax hubs ever used for thinnet? Maybe to boost
> the signal and get past the length limitation, or maybe to isolate
> "problem" branches so they don't interfere with other branches?
>
Actually, they are not hubs, they are ethernet repeaters. I have a
DEC one litting in the lab right now, but I can't imagine what I might
do with it. The electricity it would use in a year is more than enough
to pay for a 100baseT switch.
bill
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 08:26:59 BST