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Arcnet was my first network at home. Bought four cards and a passive hub for $50 from a friends father's company upgrading to ethernet. We used it for playing
by Avernar 11y ago
Arcnet was my first network at home. Bought four cards and a passive hub for $50 from a friends father's company upgrading to ethernet. We used it for playing Doom and Duke Nukem in my basement.
Then we upgraded to 10base2 once the cards came down in price. Then finally the 4 port 10baseT hubs with a 10base2 uplink dropped in price. We had a 10 player game of Duke Nukem one night in my basement.
But up until now I have never seen a 10base5 network.
- digi_owl 11y agoWas the go to guy for networking for the local boys for some years. I may still have a few 10baseT and 10base2 devices sitting around somewhere. Craziest i manage to set up was a combo of baseT and base2 that got extended in real time as more people piled in for the weekend.
- rplst8 11y agoArcnet was cool because it could be run long distances. Up to a mile IIRC.