*bzzzt* coax (ie, 10 base2) is maxxed out at 185 metres. Thats how long the minimum ethernet frame (64 bytes) is when transmitted down the wire (so that the most distant station can detect collisions).
I don't recall the specs for 10base5 (which is also coaxial) but I do remember the wire is far thicker (hence thicknet and thinnet) Coax can be 10base2 or 10base5 On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:26, Vik Olliver wrote: > C Falconer wrote: > > > > Official rating for UTP is 100 metres from hub/switch to PC, and maximum > > of five hubs/switches. However, I've seen major latency problems with 5 > > hubs, so the fewer the better. > > Coax works out to 300 metres. > > Vik :v) > -- > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / > X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X > / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
