Networking

[Steve C]

Hele - I'm not sure, but are you saying that you cannot get a 10/100 hub? I have a 5 port hub which each port is a 10/100 one and I have 3 100mb cards, and a 10mb one plugged into it and they all work together a treat. It was not particulaly expensive either.

It's a 100mb NIC which has 4 ports on the back of it. It cost me around £50.

Cheers,

Steve

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[Helevitia]

Steve,

Actually, you are correct. I just realized that my own company sells a 10/100 hub and they do it by having 2 seperate backplanes, one for the 10Mb and one for the 100Mb. I'm not sure how they talk to eachother though. The bottom line is that the 10/100Mb hubs are not very common. Thanks for pointing that out Steve

Dave

[Tn]

alright I guess it is too much work and money to get old to mix with new. I just wanted to know because my friend with the crap network plays more games I like than the other with the fast network.

Thanks for all the info,
Thien

[Buuri]

Well actually, now that 1000BASE-TX has been ratified you should go with that.. hehheh

Maybe not yet.


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[Helevitia]

Burri,

Yes it would be nice if everyone had Gigabit Unfortunately it only works with fiber now and is way to expensive. They are creating a standard though for Gigabit over copper.

Dave

[Buuri]

1000BASE-TX has already been ratified, Dave.

(T=twisted pair, F would be fiber)

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[This message has been edited by Buuri (edited 07-20-99).]

[Zyn]

Im not sure if they already answered this.
A few old hubs have coax outpput, 2 rj-45's into that and hook in the coax.
1 more option, you can always buy rj-45 to coax converters!

[Colin Morey]

Zyn, If you mean transceivers, they are far to expensive to bother with, and if you're talk baluns, they won't work as the voltages are different between UTP and Co-ax.

Colin