OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:57:00PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > |hub|--------------|rj45 plug|-----------------|rj45 plug|
> > 		      |				  |
> > 		      |				  |
> > 		      |				  |
> > 		 Computer		       Computer	       
...
> man, you guys are fast.
> 
> but so far I count 3 quite different explanations.  Any comments on
> who's right?

All 3 said, "No, you can't." :-)  You can do the above with 10base2
(coaxial), but not with 10/100baseT (twisted-pair).

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