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| 214903 | 2004-02-12 15:25:00 | Is coaxtial cable faster than fiber optic?I've hardly heard of coaxial cable.Are there any places in nz that uses coaxial cable? | yingxuan (3330) | ||
| 214904 | 2004-02-12 15:58:00 | Hi ying To inform you: Optical is the fastest. It also has huge bandwidth capabilities. Unfortunatly, it is also the most expensive. Coax is most certainly slower. Rev Species 116 |
revspecies116 (3916) | ||
| 214905 | 2004-02-12 17:42:00 | I think the bigger questions is why are you wanting to compare the two? is it for dvd players? is it for communications? |
roofus (483) | ||
| 214906 | 2004-02-12 18:29:00 | > Is coaxtial cable faster than fiber optic?I've hardly > heard of coaxial cable.Are there any places in nz > that uses coaxial cable? My home network uses coaxial cable as a network medium. Coaxial is slower than fibre optic. |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 214907 | 2004-02-12 18:46:00 | Hey - justa quick Q here, does any one know the max length of coax that you could use to network to pcs? Cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 214908 | 2004-02-12 19:11:00 | i think its 100m before a repeater | Budda (2736) | ||
| 214909 | 2004-02-12 19:11:00 | optical is the backbone for large fast data transfer coaxial is used in the last mile to enter the home etc used also for cable tv and broadband internet slower but cheaper | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 214910 | 2004-02-12 19:23:00 | The cool thing about fibre optic is that computers can still not process binary from light to binary in terms of electrical current fast enough (i.e. virtually the speed of light) so theres still a lot more potential in fibre! - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 214911 | 2004-02-12 20:02:00 | > Hey - justa quick Q here, does any one know the max > length of coax that you could use to network to pcs? > Cheers Around 185m for thinnet 50ohm cable (the stuff I use) 10Base2 Around 500m for thicknet for backbones(requiers a transceiver and interface card with AUI port) |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 214912 | 2004-02-12 20:16:00 | > I've hardly heard of coaxial cable. Are there any places in nz > that uses coaxial cable? Just every TV aerial in the country almost (the round cable is co-axial). |
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