Greetings: We run a hobby ethernet LAN in our home with four machines connected via 10Base2, BNC coax, cabling.. It works fine but we're looking ahead when UTP will be "standard" as we see no new MBs without the RJ45, cat 3-5 cable, sockets.. We're not interested in any but the 10mbs speed..
The query is: During the transition, especially since one of the machines is 25 feet from the other 3 and the coax cable already built in the walls -- we wonder if we could connect using both UTP and BNC?
We note that hubs are available; typically 8 UTP and 1 BNC but it sounds like the BNC is only for linking extra hubs....
I can't seem to find a definative answer as to whether we could use the same hub for; typically -- 3 UTP cables and 1 coax cable...
TIA and cheers,
Well, Hal ... it's been a long time, but I used to do just what you're describing ... we had a 10Base2 (what you're calling BNC; also called thinnet) "backbone that connected several hubs and a couple of servers, combined with a lot of 10BaseT (what you're calling UTP) clients. No problems, as long as we were careful about terminating the 10Base2 ends properly (that is, even if it's only 2 nodes, don't skip the T-connectors and terminating resistors).
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