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my boss wants to use his old 10base2 connections, well im pretty sure thats it, the main cable is coaxal and the connector you connect on the PC is a BNC conector. well he has four windows xp computer and a DSL modem, the only problem we have is we cant connect the BNC to the computer, i cant find any 10base2 PCI card. Can anyone help me Please. thank you
jdhore
11-28-2006, 01:04 AM
the only place you'll find 10Base2/Coaxial networking gear is MAYBE on Ebay...it's very slow compared to anything that uses CAT5 and un-reliable...i very highly recommend sticking with standard ethernet
tokenuser
11-28-2006, 01:47 AM
my boss wants to use his old 10base2 connections, well im pretty sure thats it, the main cable is coaxal and the connector you connect on the PC is a BNC conector. well he has four windows xp computer and a DSL modem, the only problem we have is we cant connect the BNC to the computer, i cant find any 10base2 PCI card. Can anyone help me Please. thank you10base2 or TokenRing? I know there were serially connected device made by Xircom ... eBay is the best you can do, but seriously, you will be better off buying a 5 pack of cheap 100Mbit Ethernet cards, and a router ... or even 802.11a/b/g wifi cards and a wifi router than trying to save a buck with the 10b2 gear.
ArmpitOfDeath
12-10-2006, 08:48 PM
Y? Y? Y?
Run wireless, run some CAT5 cables, why bother running 10base2? Eeeeeeeek!