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Anyone out there other than me old enough to have run a 10base2 network in their home? My first computers 2 computers when I was in high school I connected together with a 10base2 with 50 ohm terminators and all that. My mom wasnt happy as I literally knocked a hole in her wall without asking her.
This was back when the internet was still fairly new so you would get on with 1200 baud modems to a BBS that would give you a piggyback onto the internet which you might be lucky to get access to for 30 - 60 minutes a day.
10base2 network card attached for prosperity.
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@freemo Hehehe, never had them myself, but I've seen them at work before. Especially handy for the big places. :)
How come this kind of networking isn't in use anymore? Isn't it much easier cabling-wise?
@trinsec well aside from being much slower (it slows down the more computers you have on a ring) it is also much more finichy on a few accounts. 1) any computer that is at the end of a chain needs a terminator, without it everyone on the wire cant connect. 2) if any one point in the network fails then the entire network fails, or atleast everyone on that loop/chain.
