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@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.

@Sophistifunk

So did God

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@modrobert

No but still cool :)

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@amerika

Yes my very first modem was 1200 baud. Though I think at the time technology had advanced to 9600 baud, but I was a poor kid.

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@robryk

All valid and important points here.

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@robryk

Ideally the shield should be connected to ground as in any coax configuration. However even if it werent connected to ground it would work, so its possible you had some sort of a cheap card that was wired weird. Also possible there was a bias-t hooked up to inject power into the coax, in which case the shield should have still been counded but could possibly explain the problem you had if it was wired wrong.

You may have had a ground loop going on, but that should only happen if, again, your home or computer is wrired incorrectly.

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@lucifargundam

Hahaha, facts!

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Amazon be like: White shorts, XXL from columbia, $15

Me: Hmm those dark green ones look nice

Amazon: Those are $50

@realcaseyrollins Have you tried QKSMS? I havent used it so I myself cant comment but it is a popular alternative that I know is open-source

@realcaseyrollins No I'm not saying that. I dont know if its FOSS. It sounded like you were saying it wasnt FOSS and wanted a FOSS alternative. If its already FOSS is there a reason youa re looking for a fork?

@realcaseyrollins if the app isnt FOSS already then it cant be "forked" at best it might be cloned. So might want to use differnt language when you search and get better results.

There are certainly lots of SMS messaging apps that behave very similarly. I guess it depends on what your looking for.

@lucifargundam

Would kinda be fun to find some old school super ass slow networking connectors and chain them them through a series of adapters for each generation till you get to a gigabit network, and then run it on a modern network :)

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@lucifargundam

Yea I saw this. though it doesnt even connect to your computer to get you 10base2 access. It just converts from one obsolete standard (10base2) to another (10baseT)

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Ya know I think the Vatican might have the only real military in the world that still wears metal armor...

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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The first rule of condescension club is... well you'd already know what it was if you actually deserved to be here.

Ya know those tiny network routers you have on your desk that you use to connect all your computers together and connect to the internet... Well this is what it looked like in the early days when the internet didnt exist as a word yet (It was still called ARPANet). Like most computer devices from the 70's it would take up a nice chunk of the room.

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