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On Saturday 07 August 2004 08:04 pm, Joey Dale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just got about 200ft of coaxial ethernet cable (RG85) with N
> connecters, and would like to hook my buddy into my network (A reason to
> justify a 6/4 MB/s pipe). Anyway, does anyone have a few pci coax
> ethernet cards for free/trade. Also what are the correct terms for this
> (thicknet?) (N connecter?)
>
> Thank You
> -Joey
Whatever the "savings" are thought to be because of having the free cable are
going to be lost in headache over going back to coax.
There are really good reasons why it's not in use anymore.
Not reliable. Slow (10Mbit). Hard to find hardware.
Just throw it away...
Over the years (long past) I've had to deal with thin-net. Crimped connections
goes bad 50% of the time (must solder it). Running at 10MB might seem better
than not at all, but I'd rather save up the few tens of dollars to buy
twisted pair technology, and run at 100MB.
Since thin-net disappared a few decades ago, finding new network cards could
prove challenging. I know I've thrown them away as soon as I found any. Next,
finding drivers could be an even more interesting challenge.
Really, save yourself some agony and throw it away...
I may have missed the jest of this story. Are you suggesting letting him share
your cable connection? In that case you should also do that AFTER the
firewall. Conectiong another cable box to the cable WILL be detected by
Brighthouse engineers.
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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