Re: Ethernet Hub UTP + BNC??

[Mike Turcotte <guitarfreak01@cogeco.ca>]

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,
>  
>
Yes this is possible, as I also have one of those hubs. You can connect 
all the machines you like to the UTP connectors and connect machines to 
the BNC connector, as if the hub is just another node on the segment. 
You can connect workstations, servers and additional hubs all off the 
same BNC connection on the hub.

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