10Base-2 : Terminating resistor rating?

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On 7/28/2006 at 11:09 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >Don't fall into the trap of 'Oh,  it's a short cable, reflections aren't 
> >a problem, I can use anything'. The collision dections stuff will moan at 
> >you :-)
> 
> If the network works at all.  Mine won't work without terminators, period.

Of course it won't work if it detects collisions all the time (if the 
resistor is too high -- say just a terminator at one end of the cable, 
then any transmission will look like a collision). But it can help to 
know why it's not working.

-tony