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In the 90s I worked for a small company whose LAN was Ethernet over coax. The main issue was if there was a dodgy BNC connector/splitter or break in the cable a
by duncans 8y ago
In the 90s I worked for a small company whose LAN was Ethernet over coax. The main issue was if there was a dodgy BNC connector/splitter or break in the cable anywhere in the building, the whole LAN would go down, which was fun to track down. When hubs and switches became cheaper and twisted pair (10BASE-T) more common we migrated over.
- jabl 8y agoYeah, for ethernet the switch from coax to twisted pair coincided with the switch to a star topology. That topology change was good for a lot of reasons. When asking this question, I was more interested in learning about the signaling issues in the different cable types.