10base-2 to 10base-t media convertor?

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/6/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 5:18 AM +0100 5/6/07, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> >Get a cheap hub that has both 10/100baseT and BNC. Mine is a Dynamode
> >DM-809STP. I use it to convert the BNC output from my VAX to 100BaseT on
> >my network.
>
> How common are 10/100BaseT Hubs with a BNC connection?  I know I've
> never seen one.  Any hub I've seen with a BNC connection has been
> limited to 10Mbit.

The only ones I've seen, are 10Mbit only as well.  I have one I use
with 1 x 10base2,  8 x 10baseT, and 1 x AUI that I've slapped a
10baseFL transceiver onto.

> The original posters problem just happens to be half the reason I
> even care about 10Base2, my Amiga 3000's NIC only has a BNC
> connection, I also have this problem with my DECserver 90L+.  Though
> I'm not using either at the moment.

I'm in the same boat - Amigas with 10base2 only.  Pretty much anything
else I have that does networking has 10base2 _and_ an AUI at least.

In my experience, it's much easier to find an old 10baseT hub with a
10base2 port or an AUI (to which you add a 10base2 transceiver) than a
10base2 to 10baseT media converter, but the media converter will be
smaller if you can track one down.

-ethan