Eko wrote:
>If there are only two PCs to connect, IIRC there's no
>need for any hub?
You'll need a diffrent cable (just as when you use a null-modem cable) (a
"twisted" TP).
>Besides, a hub is more expensive
>than lengthy coax cables and terminators combined! ;-)
I said this to the guy in the store and he lowered the price on it with
little more than 20 USD (4 TP, 1 up-link, 1 BNC), original price was
something like 55 USD so it still wasn't cheap. (I bought almost an entire
system in parts, otherwise he wouldn't have lowered it of course). I'm glad
I don't have a 6th computer to have in the LAN with the others since a new
hub is expensive IMHO. But it adds flexibility of course, not that I plug
the 5th machine in that often.
The problem with BNC is that you can't buy it here (since little more than
over a year) forcing you to atleast add a hub to a LAN that you expand.
Of course the above price was for a 10MBps hub one year ago,spending the
extreme ammount a 100MBPs hub would cost can be better used in other areas
in a computer. A brand new 2D/3D card for instance which isn't that much
more expensive - and most likely cheaper if you take into account that the
NICs are much more expensive than the 10MBps type.
I really can't imagine why a home-user would want a 100MBps LAN for
(although a friend of my cousin wondered how much it would cost since it
"would be too slow" with a 10MBps I still don't know what it was that would
be so slow - only 10 minutes for copying a complete CD and that's prety
much data).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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