On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 2:23:10 AM UTC-5, FromTheRafters wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote on 8/7/2015 :
On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 1:34:59 AM UTC-5, FromTheRafters wrote:
laid this down on his screen :
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:53:57 -0400, Tekkie® wrote:
It "works" but I heard you could run Twinax on a barbed wire fence and
it "works". I wouldn't try that either.
I loved soldering those connectors in suspended ceilings... Then I found
crimp connectors and a tester, the boss actually bought it for me! I
remember the IBM techs bringing their testers in-they were the size of
power strips...
I just gave my Twinax tester away a few years ago along with my
installation kit and a bag of connectors.
I had the good crimper that pushed in from 4 sides. If you had it
adjusted right, it made better connections than soldering.
I had the setup to do TDR with a scope too if the tester said it was
OK and it still failed (more often than you would think) I was region
support so the normal things were done before I got there.
Just curious, what was the Twinax used for? ISTR it being used on the
Omega hyperbolic navigation system's antenna - and I hadn't even heard
mention of it since until now.
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It's what was used for networking computers before Thinnet coaxial cable
networks which came before UTP,"Un-shielded Twisted Pair" for networking and
finally Ethernet. I can't remember the UTP network protocol before Ethernet.
I have pulled a lot of Twinax cable out of older offices when upgrading the
network to Ethernet. There is a lot of scrap value in the tons of abandoned
cabling in office buildings. ( Í¡áõ ÍœÊ Í¡áõ )
[8~{} Uncle Cable Monster
Thanks for the info. I hadn't heard of it being used with computer
networks.
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Heck, there're probably still some systems out there using it for networking. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[8~{} Uncle Network Monster