On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sam Ewalt wrote: > In the > meantime I've been futzing about with my collection of junk > 486's and by swapping stuff in and out I now have two working > Dell 486dx's with 16megs each and a couple of ethernet cards > already installed.
Yeah... I have a couple of 486's I need to take a look at too. > The network cards can use either coax or twisted pair. Does it > matter what I use? In a two machine setup, twisted is better. You can run both cards duplex, meaning you can go 10 Mbits each way simultaneously, giving you a total effective bandwidth of 20Mbit. With coax, you've got a total of 10Mbit so each machine must wait for the other to finish. Like the difference between CB and telephone. - Steve
