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

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Sun May 6 18:52:18 CDT 2007


At 3:52 PM -0400 5/6/07, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>On 5/6/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>>On 6 May 2007 at 14:01, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>
>>>  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.
>>
>>I've got a PCI 10/100 card with an Intel chipset on it and it's got
>>both coax and UTP connectors on it, so they *do* exist.
>
>I think some of the context got whacked - I was referring to hubs, not NICs.
>
>I haven't seen a 10/100 hub with 10base2.

While the context got whacked, that's the first I've ever heard of a 
10/100 NIC with a Coax connection.  I assume that it would only be 
able to use the UTP at 100Mbit?  With the Coax being 10Mbit only.

Zane


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