Actually, vampire taps were fairly easy to handle. The big problem was putting the AUI transceiver near each station in a way the user couldn't damage it accidentally. And yeah, running the backbone cable was a *bit* of a pain! -Adam
On Feb 5, 2014 10:59 AM, Hartmut W Sager hwsager@marityme.net wrote:
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. 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! Hartmut Sager
On 5 February 2014 09:50, Colin Stanners 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 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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