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I actually have a couple of old PCI ethernet cards that have both standard RJ45 connectors and BNC coax connectors. Does that mean I actually have something rar
by earlz 12y ago
I actually have a couple of old PCI ethernet cards that have both standard RJ45 connectors and BNC coax connectors. Does that mean I actually have something rare?
- teh_klev 12y agoProbably not. I had a whole drawer of them up until a couple of years ago. I chucked most of them (possibly with the exception of one, "just in case"). You'll probably find hundreds of them piled up in the "spares" rooms of loads of IT departments.
- kjs3 12y agoNot as rare as the handful of PCI ethernet cards I have with a RJ45 and a DB9 connector. 100BASE-CX, ethernet over STP, used for a very brief period of time so people could reuse their Token Ring wiring plant for Ethernet.
- syncsynchalt 12y agoIs it DB9, or AUI? (AUI is 15-pin, and is the card required for this story)
- kjs3 12y agoDB9. As I said, it's so customers with a wiring plant based on Token Ring STP (aka Type 1) could use ethernet at the end points without running new wiring.
- syncsynchalt 12y agoAs I understand it the BNC connector is not rare, it's the AUI connector that's hard to find. That's the 15-pin VGA-ish connector in the card pictured.