On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:31 pm, you wrote: > [...] > 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.
The ONLY thing I've seen baluns used for with coax is to provide something of an "airgap" to deal with grounding issues back in the glory days of ARCnet. I've NEVER seen them used (successfully :) to provide a UTP-Coax conversion for Ethernet. As was mentioned previously, a cheap hub with both connections can be handy for when you do need such conversion. - Bob 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
