Setting up a network and sharing internet

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 24 13:38:25 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:44:08AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> My older hub has one 10Base2 and 5 (?) 10BaseT sockets. While not 
> cable-only this 10MBps hub will likely cost less than a cable crimper 
> (2nd hand) ;-) I also have a few NICs with 10Base2 BNCs. At least one is 
> PCI. They are the cheap no-name kind with RTL8109/8139 chips. I think it 
> cost $12.

Of course if you don't have any 10base2 cable around, and Ts and
terminators, then it would be cheaper to go find a 10baseT card to
replace in the machine in question.  Of course if it is old and has the
network port built in and has no AUI and only a BNC connector, well then
you just have to deal with it and the hub is handy.

Fortunately my old machines use AUI and I have 10baseT transceivers for
them (well at least for a few of them).

Lennart Sorensen
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