On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 15:22:16 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> The network cards can use either coax or twisted pair. Does it >> matter what I use? > Whatever is handiest or cheapest. ;) > We moved into a building that was already wired with coax for a network. > I was quite happy with having it pre-wired, as I think I know the value > of a canuckbuck. On a day when I was away, the "network" people came in > and just because someone who WAS in at the time thought coax was "passe", > they ripped out the coax. > So we had to PAY to have it re-wired with CAT5 twisted pair. > This has potentially greater bandwidth capability than coax, but right > now, (6 months later) we are using 10% of the capability of COAX ! >From what I have read about COAX I understand that COAX is better than twisted pair because of the electronic shielding effect provided by the outer conductor. In some environments COAX must be used in order to prevent inductive interference due to spurious RFI emissions and other frequencies. In the case of twisted pair, the more twists the better when it comes to preventing interfering induction. A drawback to COAX is that it tends to be persnickity over such things as impedence mismatches when connecting to different types of of COAX cables. Usually this problem can be overcome by installing some impedence transformers and such. I must admit that I don't have much knowledge and understanding in this matter at all. I'm just reporting on some stuff I have read. Fiber-optics connections are an alterative to twisted pair and COAX. They are said to be best for preventing inductive interference. If anyone knows of an authoritative URL on this subject plese post. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
