Re: Ethernet Hub UTP + BNC??

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: We run a hobby ethernet LAN in our home with four machines
> connected via 10Base2, BNC coax, cabling.. It works fine but we're
> looking ahead when UTP will be "standard" as we see no new MBs
> without the RJ45, cat 3-5 cable, sockets.. We're not interested in
> any but the 10mbs speed..
> 
> The query is: During the transition, especially since one of the
> machines is 25 feet from the other 3 and the coax cable already built
> in the walls -- we wonder if we could connect using both UTP and BNC?
> 
> We note that hubs are available; typically 8 UTP and 1 BNC but it
> sounds like the BNC is only for linking extra hubs....
> 
> I can't seem to find a definative answer as to whether we could use
> the same hub for; typically -- 3 UTP cables and 1 coax cable...
> 
> TIA and cheers,

Well, Hal ... it's been a long time, but I used to do just what you're 
describing ... we had a 10Base2 (what you're calling BNC; also called 
thinnet) "backbone that connected several hubs and a couple of servers, 
combined with a lot of 10BaseT (what you're calling UTP) clients. No 
problems, as long as we were careful about terminating the 10Base2 ends 
properly (that is, even if it's only 2 nodes, don't skip the 
T-connectors and terminating resistors).

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