On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:24:28 -0500, flipper wrote:


No, you said coax Ethernet "topped out at 2Mb/s." 10base2 is (thin)
coax Ethernet running 10Mb/s. As Jasen said, "5 times faster" than
what you said.

10base Ethernet is 10Mb/s whether it's twisted pair (-T) or coax (2 or
5) or fiber (-FL). That's what the "10" means.


Except that the coax implementations were tied to the cards they were
attached to and those were 2Mb/s. By the time the 10Mb/s stuff hit the
streets, folks were buying twisted pair solutions, and coax was
practically completely abandoned. The card makers stopped putting coax
I/O ports on the cards, and rj45 became all you could get, Ethernet wise.

TCNS and MS had some proprietary protocol Star configurations, and
there were a few others, but Ethernet ended up winning because it kept up
speed wise, and was considerably cheaper. Now, I don't even know if any
other methods exist, except for fiber, of course. What other wired
solutions are there currently?