[rescue] SS20's AUI port

[Ken Hansen]

Coax networking has lots of little problems...

if the cable breaks, it is hard to determine where the cable break is.

coax is limited to 10 Mb/s, cat 5 goes to 100 Mb/s or greater...

every machine is connected to one of it's neighbors, complicating any
network design of moe than 2 or 3 machines in the same room/near by

besides, cat 5 is *so* cheap, from $5-10 10/100 Mb/s cards to $40 8 port
hubs and 5 port switches...

DIY micrAUI to (std) AUI would be challenging, as connectors will cost
*almost* as much as the finished cable from Mike N I suspect.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guess" <guessfirst at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] SS20's AUI port


> What happened to BNC ? It sounds like a 3 horns
> monster from u guys. The network hung or what ?
>
> Though I have a 5-port hub but just try to avoid messy
> cables everywhere.
>
> By the way is it possible to make my own cable ?
> Convert tiny AUI to stardard AUI ? What is the
> connector name u guys call it ? For serial we have
> DB25/DB9, what about for micro AUI and standard AUI ?



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