On 05/02/2014 10:59 AM, Hartmut W Sager wrote:While I'd have no trouble believing MTS supplied 10-Base-2/T combo cards in the early days, I'd have trouble believing their early DSL modems actually used coax only. But that could be the case. (I'd say you'd have to go back quite a bit more than a decade, though.)
I do consider it quite possible that this is simply a 10Base-2 NIC, and
that MTS supplied such NIC's at one time (to match some ancient DSL
modem), even though I don't distinctly remember this from my MTS past.
Ah, memories!... In my first few years in my current jobs (almost 25 years ago now), I did work with some (inherited) 10Base-5 nodes, with the old external transceivers and stinger taps. I don't remember having to actually install one myself, however.
A hub isn't needed - 10Base-2 has all the stations (computers, etc.)
along a linear cable with T-connectors at each of them, even the two end
units, and a terminating resistor on the otherwise open-ended
T-connector at each of the two ends.
Man, I hated wiring the connectors onto those 10Base-2 cables! Anyone
out there old enough to have handled the even older 10Base-5 stuff? You
gotta love RJ-45!
We did run 10Base-2 thin coax for a number of years, and I did install a number of external transceivers on that, as well as BNC T connectors for interfaces with internal transceivers. This would include running a temporary bypass cable (which we affectionately called the "hyper-space bypass") between two points, so that we could splice into a section of previously "live" cable to install new connectors for new drops. We got comfortable enough with doing this that we could add new drops on a wire without anyone on that segment even noticing an outage (except for maybe in the room where we were working, which was being bypassed).
Fun stuff... I don't miss it at all, though. :)
Gilbert
On 5 February 2014 09:50, Colin Stanners <cstanners@gmail.com<mailto:cstanners@gmail.com>> wrote:
Likely: PC TV-capture card, or they're really confusing an ethernet
cable.
Very unlikely: ancient 10base-2 NIC to a hub somewhere with their
DSL modem.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Kevin McGregor<kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com <mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com>> wrote:
Friends of my parents have had MTS Internet service for a decade
or more (probably more).
They told me that they have a coax cable in the room with their
computer (an IBM Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, to give you an idea of the
age of this setup; they had MTS Internet service before that in
an older computer) AND that this coax cable plugs directly into
their PC.Has anyone seen this sort of setup? I didn't look at it
myself; this is just what I got from them over the phone just now.
Are they mistaken, or did MTS in the past provide a PC card with
a coax connector for Internet access? It's possible that they
didn't recognize an Ethernet cable, but I did explicitly ask if
it was connected to the computer with a screw-on type connector
which they confirmed it was.
Kevin
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