flipper wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:58:18 -0700, FatBytestard
wrote:

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.

Maybe whatever the heck you had was 2Mb/s but my Ethernet cards were
10Mb/s and I've still got the cards, cable, and T connectors around
here somewhere but it's been so long I don't recall where that 'old
parts' box ended up.

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.

The 10Mb/s cards with both coax and RJ45 connectors I can still find
because some are in the PCI 'old parts' box.

Coax connectors on the cards ended with 100Mb/s

I still have a 4 computer network running with 10base ethernet on coax,
ending at a NetGear Etherhub, to connect to my router(Speedtouch).

And the speed is 10 Megabyte/sec, or 100Megabit/second, which it
achieves without a problem.