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| 163504 | 2003-07-28 12:47:00 | I have four machines to network - three are currently working fine on a 10base2 system with 10mbs cards. I'm adding a new XP machine with a 100mbs card and considering converting to 10baseT. Will all my cards need to be the same speed for the network to work? |
tonyb (4322) | ||
| 163505 | 2003-07-28 12:59:00 | The 100 MHz card will most likely be a 10/100 MHz card, which will happily work at 10 MHz. I have a mixture of 10 and 10/100, they all operate fine at 10. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 163506 | 2003-07-28 21:15:00 | You could put a 10base2 card in the XP machine - the most economic way to put the machine on your network. If your other machines have combo cards (BNC and RJ45 connectors), you may wish to invest in a switch and some TP cabling. The switch will handle both the 10Mbps and 100MBps speeds (converting the data speeds between ports). With such a setup, you can easily improve the network transfer speed of any of the other 3 machines by replacing the NIC with a 100Mbps card. |
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