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I like that it talks about coaxial cable. In case anyone is curious, like I was, twisted-pair cabling is used in practice because it's much cheaper and easier t
by globular-toast 3y ago
I like that it talks about coaxial cable. In case anyone is curious, like I was, twisted-pair cabling is used in practice because it's much cheaper and easier to work with than coax.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI think it's slightly more complex than that. There's a relationship between the cost and complexity of repeater technologies vs. the cost and complexity of the cabling and its necessary topology that really drove 10BaseT adoption.
- bluGill 3y agoCoax is cheaper, or at least was when I used it in 1995. However since coax went from machine to machine it could be more expensive if the machines were not near each other. What killed coax was a problem anywhere took down everyone, and so there were too many problems.
- globular-toast 3y agoYou're talking about a different topology, though. Twisted-pair is cheaper per metre so allows you do to star topologies which work better. Especially so if you consider equivalent cables, so a hypothetical Cat6A equivalent coax vs Cat6A UTP or whatever.
- bluGill 3y agoCoax per meter was cheaper than cat-3 twisted pair (Cat5 existed but nobody was using it). That is before the star topology required a lot more meters of cable for twisted pair. Twisted pair was easier to work with than coax, and star topology avoided a lot of trouble with other topologies so it won out anyway, but it wasn't cheaper at first.