Just a clarification on the baluns and what function they actually serve. It finally dawned on me that these things are meant to allow someone to use a UTP cable to go between two BNC terminals (e.g., NIC's or NIC and hub, say): you take your UTP cable, put one of these baluns on each end, then connect the BNC's to the devices and you've replaced the cabling part of a coax run with UTP cable. Is that right? That would explain why the balun's description only talked about using 2 wires of the UTP cable.
Although I found some coax cable for pretty cheap in a bargain bin at my local used computer parts outlet ($3 for 25'), I think I'm probably not going to use this card - at least not right now. I'd have to buy some other parts (the terminators I understand must go at each and every end of a coax cable run) and still wouldn't really be able to integrate the machine it will hook to into my network unless I bought an rj45/bnc capable hub to hook in too. I think I can just buy an older rj45 PCMCIA NIC for less than $10 (maybe even a new one, if a sale comes along), so it won't be worth sinking more than that into getting this card working. Anyway, thanks for the help and advice. Interesting networking history lessons were learned, at least. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
