"Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> 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.
The biggest downer to coax (10Base-2) 'thin' Ethernet is that a bad
connection on one device can drop the whole network, and they're a bear to
troubleshoot once you get more than a few stations online. Cheap and
effective to be sure, but if the funds will allow UTP (10Base-T), life gets
much simpler.
> [...]
> 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).
Here locally (SW US), prices on 100Mbps components have dropped so much that
there's little incentive to buy anything new that's 'only' 10Mbps. The
question tends to be 'why not?' Often, 10/100 cards are the cheapest on the
shelf. Part of the reason is because many 10Mbps cards still provide the AUI
and BNC connectors which drive up costs. Buy a couple, and the price of a
cheap hub is pretty well covered.
Of course, used you can find plenty of 10Mbps components pretty cheap if you
don't mind some hit and miss! I still keep my 10Base-T hub with BNC coax
connector around just in case.
- Bo
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