> The idea of Carrier Sense is that the "carrier" signal on the network indicates that the network is idle. Wouldn't a carrier indicate that the network is bus

> The idea of Carrier Sense is that the "carrier" signal on the network indicates that the network is idle. Wouldn't a carrier indicate that the network is busy? Actually, Ethernet is a baseband system and so doesn't actually have a carrier, but for Alohanet you would only have the carrier when a transmitter was on even if it wasn't actually sending 1s or 0s at that instant.